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fame

mastery

/feɪm/nounverb

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Which meaning of 'fame' best matches its use in the sentence?

If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.