impute
verb (used with object)
to attribute or ascribe.
has imputed
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present perfectof impute (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, popular inaccuracy has imputed her errors to the gentle Eleanor of Castile, her daughter-in-law, and thus the ballad calls her wife to Edward I., instead of Henry III.
From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Mary Yonge
They acknowledge, that if any proof can be produced of the crimes which calumny has imputed to them, they are worthy of the most severe punishment.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
Tradition, however, has imputed to him a brutal ferocity beyond belief.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The Chronicle, I see, has reported what he thought or heard I said, but he has imputed to me what I neither felt nor uttered.
From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by David Ricardo
This attitude was dictated by honour; the multitude has imputed it to flattery.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
