Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Repute

Repute (r?-p?t") , transitive verb

[French réputer, Latin reputare to count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count, think. See Putative.]

To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? — Job xviii. 3
The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent. — Shakespeare

Repute , noun

1.
Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. — Milton
2.
Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute.
Dead stocks, which have been of repute. — F. Beaumont