All 3 Uses
reputable
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- But the name of that family, Davie, boy, is the name you bear—Balfours of Shaws: an ancient, honest, reputable house, peradventure in these latter days decayed.†
Chpt 1 *reputable = respected (with good reputation)
- "In Heaven's name," cried I, "can you find no reputable life on shore?"†
Chpt 5
- For the life of me I could not muster up the courage to address any of these reputable burghers; I thought shame even to speak with them in such a pickle of rags and dirt; and if I had asked for the house of such a man as Mr. Rankeillor, I suppose they would have burst out laughing in my face.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(reputable) trusted and respected (having a good reputation)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)