Repute vs Prestige - 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
(obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
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The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
As nouns the difference between repute and prestige
is that repute is reputation, especially a good reputation while prestige is delusion; illusion; trick.As a verb repute
is to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.repute
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(-)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.
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* (archaic)Noun
(-)- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige .