Both Uses of
repute
in
Gone with the Wind
- I have heard much of him (as who has not?) and Pauline wrote me only last week that he is a man of bad repute and not even received by his own family in Charleston, except of course by his heartbroken mother.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- It has always been held in disrepute—especially by those who had the same opportunities and didn't take them.†
Chpt 4.47disrepute = having a bad reputationstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disrepute means not or opposite. It reverses the "good reputation" meaning of repute as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
Definitions:
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(1)
(repute as in: in good repute) reputation; or good reputation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, repute can mean to claim though that form is more often seen as reputed.