ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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It is hard for any man to deny merits attributed to him, especially if he has been ascribing to himself the opposite demerits.
From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells