The Only Use of
impute
in
The Scarlet Letter
- We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heart that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter—the letter A—marked out in lines of dull red light.
Chpt 12impute = attribute (think this was caused by)
Definition:
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(impute as in: imputed the outburst to stress) attribute (to say one thing is the cause of another--often to blame and often wrongly)