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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

ascendancy, assume, authority, be afraid, believe, celebrity, character, charisma, charm, clout, conceive, conclude, consequence, consider, control, credit, custom, daresay, deduce, deem, dignity, distinction, divine, dominance, domination, dream, eclat, effect, eminence, enchantment, esteem, expect, fame, fancy, favor, feel, force, gather, glory, good feeling, good name, goodwill, grant, greatness, hold, honor, imagine, importance, incidental power, infer, influence, influentiality, insinuation, leadership, let, let be, leverage, magnetism, mastery, memorability, moment, name, notability, noteworthiness, notoriety, opine, patronage, personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, prefigure, preponderance, pressure, prestige, presume, presuppose, presurmise, prominence, provisionally accept, purchase, reckon, reign, remarkableness, renown, rep, report, reputation, rule, salience, say, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, suppose, supremacy, surmise, suspect, sway, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, trade, understand, upper hand, weight, whip hand

Dictionary Results for repute:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

repute
    n 1: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn:
         repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute]
    v 1: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a
         joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He
         is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute,
         regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to
         be]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Repute \Re*pute"\, n.
   1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good
      or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
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            He who regns
            Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure
            Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. --Milton.
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   2. Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or
      honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to
      disrepute. "Dead stocks, which have been of repute." --F.
      Beaumont.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Repute \Re*pute"\ (r?-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reputed; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Reputing.] [F. r['e]puter, L. reputare to
   count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count,
   think. See Putative.]
   To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to
   think; to reckon.
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         Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in
         your sight?                              --Job xviii.
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         The king your father was reputed for
         A prince most prudent.                   --Shak.
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