Eminence vs Repute - What's the difference?
eminence | repute | Related terms |
someone of high rank, reputation or social station
the quality or state of being eminent
prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem
(geology) an elevated land area or a hill
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
(anatomy) a protuberance
Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
* Bible, Job xviii. 3
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between eminence and repute
is that eminence is someone of high rank, reputation or social station while repute is reputation, especially a good reputation.As a verb repute is
to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.eminence
English
Noun
(en noun)- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].
Synonyms
* distinction * prominence * renown * celebrityDerived terms
* Eminence (your Eminence ), title of honor for a cardinalExternal links
(wikipedia eminence)repute
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(reput)- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.