Imputation Definition

ĭmpyo͝o-tāshən
imputations
noun
The act of imputing or ascribing; attribution.
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Something imputed, ascribed, or attributed.
American Heritage

Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.

Wiktionary

(theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.

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Opinion; intimation; hint.

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Noun

Singular:
imputation
Plural:
imputations

Origin of Imputation

  • From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio

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Imputation Sentence Examples

  • The latter imputation especially influenced Hisham, who was very parsimonious.

  • A trader who is even suspected of dealing with such a victim of tyranny may be ruined by the mere imputation; his customers shun him from fear, and he is obliged to get a character from some notorious leaguer.

  • As for the latter, European scholars have long been agreed that the imputation is groundless.

  • In 1489 he was accused of magic before Pope Innocent VIII., and had to secure the good offices of Francesco Soderini, Ermolao Barbaro, and the archbishop Rinaldo Orsini, in order to purge himself of a most perilous imputation.

  • It is remarkable that just two months later, in a conversation with her keepers, she again made use of the same extraordinary argument in reply to the same inevitable imputation, and would not be brought to admit that the two cases were other than parallel.

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