(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
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The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
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Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, / If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, / Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
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1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 37–40:
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I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air.
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1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 141:
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He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
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1856 February, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “"Oliver Goldsmith"”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 8th edition, volume and page numbers unknown:
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We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
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1956–1960, Richard Stanley Peters, “2: Motives and Motivation”, in The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), page 29: