Meanings of repute so in English

She was a swimmer of repute so modern pentathlon was an obvious option.

For sheer creativeness, no human artist, I take it, has a higher repute than Michael Angelo; none perhaps has a repute so high.

'Why, yes, it's a great pity,' continues the man reputed so terrible.

Military renown, maritime ascendency, the policy once reputed so profound, the wealth once deemed inexhaustible, had passed away.

He was rich, or reputed so, but in amassing gold, by fair means or foul, lay the keynote to his life.

"I see no reason why I should be reputed so rich, or get so much flattery."

"She is reputed so," I answered.

]-ThusRousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise," once so fascinating to girls, and reputed so dangerous, had become tedious to the young, Lady Louisa says, even in 1821.