All 3 Uses of
impute
in
Ivanhoe
- "God's will be done," said Cedric, in a voice tremulous with passion, which Front-de-Boeuf imputed to fear.†
Chpt 27 *
- But the gentleness and candour of Rebecca's nature imputed no fault to Ivanhoe for sharing in the universal prejudices of his age and religion.†
Chpt 28
- "You err—you err,"—said the Templar, hastily, "if you impute what I could neither foresee nor prevent to my purpose or agency.†
Chpt 39
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)