impute
verb (used with object)
to attribute or ascribe.
had imputed
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past perfectof impute.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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On the ground, unmoving, it no longer had that kind of wild dignity and power that he had imputed to it only a few minutes before.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
Ebright seemed eager to seize the opportunity to exact revenge for the wrongs he had imputed to Pocock.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Jules had expiated the crime they had imputed to him!
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre
Miss Grey cherished no such distrust of her father as I, in my ignorance of their relations, had imputed to her in the early hours of my ministrations.
From The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green
After perusing Hegel's pages on this topic I found, however, that Mr. Lathrop had imputed to him a theory—my theory—which that philosopher would have doubtless repudiated emphatically.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
