repute
/ɹɪˈpjuːt/ verb C1- To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
- To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
He/she/it reputes · Past reputed · Past participle reputed · -ing form reputing
Verb forms
- Base form
- repute
- He/she/it
- reputes
- Past
- reputed
- Past participle
- reputed
- -ing form
- reputing
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“I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, ‘_She_ a beauty!
He appeared to be a man of considerable wealth, and was reputed to be a bachelor.
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
I am familiar with your ignoble profession, but you must take your reputed talents to some other field.
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