reputability

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The canon of reputability is at hand and seizes upon such innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive.

This is more particularly true as regards valuation on grounds so closely related to the aesthetic ground as that of reputability.

But the requirements of pecuniary reputability and those of beauty in the naive sense do not in any appreciable degree coincide.

The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of reputability in a much higher degree than the industrial employments.