Repute vs Renown - What's the difference?
repute | renown |
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
Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
* Dryden
* 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between repute and renown
is that repute is reputation, especially a good reputation while renown is fame; celebrity; wide recognition.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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(-)- Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
- There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
- This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .