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Rebut vs Repute - What's the difference?

rebut | repute |

As verbs the difference between rebut and repute

is that rebut is to drive back or beat back; to repulse while repute is to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

As a noun repute is

reputation, especially a good reputation.

rebut

English

Verb

(rebutt)
  • To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
  • * Spenser
    • Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, / Perforce rebutted back.
  • (senseid)To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

    • Derived terms

    * rebuttal * rebutter

    References

    * " rebut, v. " listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

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    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.

    • 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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