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Eminence vs Repute - What's the difference?

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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)
  • 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 :
  • 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 [...].
  • (anatomy) a protuberance
  • Synonyms

    * distinction * prominence * renown * celebrity

    Derived terms

    * Eminence (your Eminence ), title of honor for a cardinal

    repute

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Reputation, especially a good reputation.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Verb

    (reput)
  • 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
  • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
  • * Shakespeare
  • The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.