All 6 Uses
impute
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- 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.†
p. 32.3imputed = said one thing was the cause of another
- And do you impute it to either of those?†
p. 134.3impute = say one thing is the cause of another
- In an hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better.†
p. 185.1 *imputing = saying one thing is the cause of another
- 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.†
p. 226.7imputed = said one thing was the cause of another
- 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.†
p. 252.6
- 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.†
p. 305.1
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.