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Purported vs Reputed - What's the difference?

purported | reputed |

Reputed is a synonym of purported.



As adjectives the difference between purported and reputed

is that purported is supposed, or assumed to be while reputed is pertaining to a reputation accorded to another.

As verbs the difference between purported and reputed

is that purported is past tense of purport while reputed is past tense of repute.

purported

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Supposed, or assumed to be.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
  • Normally assumed to be.
  • Said by some people to be real or true or to have happened, although this may not be so

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  • (purport)

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    reputed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (repute)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a reputation accorded to another.
    • 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.
  • Pertaining to that which is supposed or assumed to be true.
    • 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.

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