Both Uses of
reputed
in
Bleak House
- The old gentleman is rusty to look at, but is reputed to have made good thrift out of aristocratic marriage settlements and aristocratic wills, and to be very rich.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- The sprightly Dedlock is reputed, in that grass-grown city of the ancients, Bath, to be stimulated by an urgent curiosity which impels her on all convenient and inconvenient occasions to sidle about with a golden glass at her eye, peering into objects of every description.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(reputed as in: reputed to be) commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds