impute
verb (used with object)
to attribute or ascribe.
was imputing
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past progressiveof impute.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Mill was imputing motives too easily, and assuming that the Reviewers saw the abuses in the same light as he did, and were truckling to public robbers in hopes of sharing the plunder.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
I flew from one extreme to the other, and was imputing perfect probity to Mr. Grey and an honorable if mysterious reason for all his acts, when the door opened and he came in.
From The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green
