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.
Origin
1400-50;late Middle Englishreputen (v.) < Middle Frenchreputer < Latinreputāre to compute, consider, equivalent to re-re- + putāre to think
Synonyms
2. distinction, honor. See credit. 3. hold, deem, reckon.
Antonyms
2. dishonor.
Examples from the web for repute
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.
There are seven of them, with a large entry list in each, embracing many horses of repute.
But surely nothing can match the ill repute of free radicals.
Cathy rebels against this cloistered existence and runs off to work in a house of ill repute.
Also featured are reconstructions of historic houses of ill repute.
The price paid was a little less for the better piece, in proportion to the owner's repute rather than to the quality of the art.
Apparently there is nothing of repute to publish today.
Ghosts who roam the former house of ill repute are a popular topic of conversation here.
They can still act selflessly, and they still know what they would need to do in order to garner good repute.
British Dictionary definitions for repute
repute
/rɪˈpjuːt/
verb
1.
(transitive; usually passive) to consider (a person or thing) to be as specified: he is reputed to be intelligent
noun
2.
public estimation; reputation: a writer of little repute
Word Origin
C15: from Old French reputer, from Latin reputāre to think over, from re- + putāre to think
Word Origin and History for repute
v.
late 14c., from Middle French reputer (late 13c.) or directly from Latin reputare "to count over, reckon; think over" (see reputation). Related: Reputed; reputing.