Repute vs Acclamation - What's the difference?
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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
A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
The process of electing a person to a post in the absence of other nominees.
(art) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
(Canada, political) Without opposition in an election.
(political) An oral vote taken without formal ballot and with much fanfare; typically an overwhelmingly affirmative vote.
As nouns the difference between repute and acclamation
is that repute is reputation, especially a good reputation while acclamation is a shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.As a verb repute
is to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.repute
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(reput)- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.
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(en noun)- On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation , an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. -.
- Acclamation''' medals are those on which laudatory '''acclamations are recorded. -
- With no one running against her, she won by acclamation .