Repute vs Reputability - What's the difference?
repute | reputability |
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
The property of being reputable, a person's reputation.
:His reputability was in question, if he couldn't prove he was reliable then no one would hire him again.
As nouns the difference between repute and reputability
is that repute is reputation, especially a good reputation while reputability is the property of being reputable, a person's reputation.As a verb repute
is to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.repute
English
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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.