REPUTA'TION, n. L. reputatio.
1. Good name the credit, honor or character which is derived from a favorable public opinion or esteem. Reputation is a valuable species of property or right, which should never be violated. With the loss of reputation, a man and especially a woman, loses most of the enjoyments of life.
The best evidence of reputation is a man's whole life.
2. Character by report in a good or bad sense as, a man has the reputation of being rich or poor, or of being a thief.
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