All 3 Uses of
impute
in
Bleak House
- I never impute motives; I both have and am a father, and I never impute motives.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- I never impute motives; I both have and am a father, and I never impute motives.†
Chpt 37-39
- He's discharged honourable; that's about what HE is; with no more imputation on his character than there is on yours, and yours is a tidy one, I'LL bet a pound.†
Chpt 55-57
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)