Significance vs Repute - What's the difference?
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The extent to which something matters; importance
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Meaning.
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
As nouns the difference between significance and repute
is that significance is the extent to which something matters; importance while repute is reputation, especially a good reputation.As a verb repute is
to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.significance
English
(wikipedia significance)Noun
(en noun)- As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
- Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
- the significance of a gesture
See also
* Significance level (statistics). * Statistical significance.repute
English
Noun
(-)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.