Imputed

Examples

• It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Though Minorca has been twice taken, and is now probably lost for ever, that disaster has never been imputed to any neglect in the executive power. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He had married her with that bad past life hidden behind him, and she had no faith left to protest his innocence of the worst that was imputed to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr Locke imputed this high price to the permission of exporting silver bullion, and to the prohibition of exporting silver coin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She rejoiced in his being cleared from some part of his imputed guilt;she was sorry for him;she wished him happy. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• God's will be done, said Cedric, in a voice tremulous with passion, which Front-de-Boeuf imputed to fear. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• When Robert first sought her acquaintance, and privately visited her in Bartlett's Buildings, it was only with the view imputed to him by his brother. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But the gentleness and candour of Rebecca's nature imputed no fault to Ivanhoe for sharing in the universal prejudices of his age and religion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Editor: Natasha