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repute | re |

As a verb repute

is .

As a proper noun re is

an island off the west coast of france, by la rochelle.

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.

    External links

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    re

    English

    (wikipedia re)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters and documents.
    • Derived terms
    * in re * in rem

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • Ray]], a syllable used in [[solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

    • Etymology 3

    (en)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Reinsurance.

    • Anagrams

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