Both Uses of
repute
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- House of ill repute.†
Chpt 1 *
- Ghetto skins along by pawning and whining to the grocer to keep the kids alive, buying groceries on credit—no serious business anywhere in sight except for the houses of ill repute and the junky line—can't even slip over to the posh sections for the stealing business, no cars to get there—and the place getting thicker and thicker with people, all boiling like white-hot lead, half of them ready to kill you on sight from pure jealousy and imaginary or real persecution—and now the insurance people pull out, pawnshops and grocers and taverns shut down, no more hope for them, nothing in sight but violence.†
Chpt 19
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.