Rapport vs Repute - What's the difference?
rapport | repute |
A relationship of mutual trust and respect.
Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
* Sir W. Temple
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 rapport and repute
is that rapport is a relationship of mutual trust and respect while repute is reputation, especially a good reputation.As a verb repute is
to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.rapport
English
Noun
- He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.
- 'Tis obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country.
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.