Definition of "bruited" [bruited]

• Simple past tense and past participle of bruit. (verb)

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• "He is young maybe too young...and last year's rumor was the only reason he got into the race was to get his name bruited about prior to a gubernatorial run in North Carolina."
• "Arnold Weber, then Assistant Secretary of Manpower and later chancellor of Northwestern University, recalls the word being bruited about heavily at the February 1970 labor conclave at Bal Harbor, Florida."
• "One thing worth learning, for example, might be that a review need not lob words like "bruited" at its readers simply to establish the reviewer's scholarly credentials."