impute

Example Sentences

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O Power, unchangeable, but just, Impute this one good thing to me, I sink my spirit to the dust In utter dumb humility.

From Alcyone by Lampman, Archibald

Impute not to me your approaching Calamities, which only increase with Theodora's.

From Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites by Jacob, Giles

Impute therefore your death not to any fault in my maxims, but to your own folly in not having sufficiently observed them.

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry

Pardon this freedom I have ta’en, An’ if impertinent I’ve been, Impute it not, good Sir, in ane Whase heart ne’er wrang’d ye, But to his utmost would befriend Ought that belang’d ye.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

"Impute" or "reckon" reminds us of an account book, with its columns of debt and credit entries.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various