The Only Use
impute
in
The Scarlet Letter
(Edited)
- 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.
p. 143.9impute = attribute (think this was caused by)
Definitions:
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(1)
(impute) to attribute or assign something -- such as blame, credit, a quality, or a value
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In finance or accounting, impute can more specifically mean to estimate or assign a value for something based on calculations.