All 6 Uses of
impute
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: "MY DEAREST LIZZY,— "I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.†
Chpt 7
- And do you impute it to either of those?†
Chpt 24 *
- In an hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better.†
Chpt 34
- His fear of her has always operated, I know, when they were together; and a good deal is to be imputed to his wish of forwarding the match with Miss de Bourgh, which I am certain he has very much at heart.†
Chpt 41
- They had nothing to accuse him of but pride; pride he probably had, and if not, it would certainly be imputed by the inhabitants of a small market-town where the family did not visit.†
Chpt 44
- He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.†
Chpt 52
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)