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noun
1.
estimation in the view of others; reputation: persons of good repute.
2.
favorable reputation; good name; public respect.
verb (used with object)
3.
to consider or believe (a person or thing) to be as specified; regard (usually used in the passive): He was reputed to be a millionaire.
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- Only tourists cling to the coast, along with pirates and conquerors and other sailors of blemished repute.
- His heated phrases on interpretation and emptiness struck their intellects, not their repute.
- Guatemala, is a mystical lady, but one of ill repute.
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