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Importance vs Repute - What's the difference?

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Importance is a related term of repute.


As a noun importance

is the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.

As a verb repute is

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importance

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
  • significance or prominence
  • personal status or standing

    • repute

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * disrepute * reputable * reputation * ill repute

    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.

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