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noun

Reputation n.

The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute. "The best evidence of reputation is a man's whole life."

(Law) The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case.

Specifically: Good reputation; favorable regard; public esteem; general credit; good name. "I see my reputation is at stake." "The security of his reputation or good name."

Account; value. (Obs.) "(/Christ) made himself of no reputation."

Synonyms: Credit; repute; regard; estimation; esteem; honor; fame. See the Note under Character.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... obedience, scrupulous cleanliness and the vulgar courage necessary for a son of Mars, Durand, with a good reputation and full of zeal, had had when very young, a rapid advance. At one moment he had foreseen a brilliant future, but his ambitious hopes had been quickly deceived. He saw the Baron de Chipotier, the Comte de Boisflottant, and the son of Pillardin, the lucky millionaire, ...

— The Grip of Desire • Hector France

... vulgar habit, too. In the old times, when poets and dry-goods salesmen were the only people who exaggerated, there was something clever and distingue about a reputation for "a tendency to over, rather than to under-estimate the mere bald facts." But everybody exaggerates nowadays. The art of exaggeration is no longer regarded as an "extra" in the modern bill of education; it is an essential requirement, held to be most ...

— Clocks - From a volume entitled "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" • Jerome K. Jerome

... power, hath in this life and breath (whether it run smoothly and gently, or whether harshly and rudely), no interest at all, but is altogether indifferent: and whatsoever else thou hast heard and assented unto concerning either pain or pleasure? But the care of thine honour and reputation will perchance distract thee? How can that be, if thou dost look back, and consider both how quickly all things that are, are forgotten, and what an immense chaos of eternity was before, and will follow ...

— Meditations • Marcus Aurelius

... partly responsible, you ought so much the more to do what you can to shield his reputation. You should have said,"—the attorney changed to French,—"'He is no pirate; he has merely taken out letters of marque and reprisal under the flag of the republic ...

— Old Creole Days • George Washington Cable

... and famous Fetter Lane sausages, formerly popular with Cockney epicures, owed their reputation mainly to basil. During the reigns of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth farmers grew basil in pots and presented them with compliments to their landladies ...

— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

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