Reputed vs Deputed - What's the difference?
reputed | deputed |
(repute)
Pertaining to a reputation accorded to another.
Pertaining to that which is supposed or assumed to be true.
(depute)
(obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 229:
To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
* Bible 2. Sam. xv. 3
* Macaulay
To appoint; to assign; to choose.
* Barrow
As verbs the difference between reputed and deputed
is that reputed is past tense of repute while deputed is past tense of depute.As an adjective reputed
is pertaining to a reputation accorded to another.reputed
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(en adjective)- 1904' ''The other young ladies of Sulaco stood in awe of her character and accomplishments. She was '''reputed to be terribly learned and serious.'' — Joseph Conrad, ''Nostramo
Part 2, Chapter 1.
- 1859' ''Mr H. C. Watson has marked for me in the well-sifted London Catalogue of plants (4th edition) 63 plants which are therein ranked as species, but which he considers as so closely allied to other species as to be of doubtful value: these 63 '''reputed species range on an average over 6.9 of the provinces into which Mr Watson has divided Great Britain.'' — Charles Darwin, ''On the Origin of Species ,
Chapter 2.
Anagrams
*deputed
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(head)depute
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(deput)- Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
- There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
- Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
- The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.