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| 1. | The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged. | |
| 2. | Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation. | |
| 3. | (Theol.) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; | |
| 4. | Opinion; intimation; hint. |
| Noun | 1. | imputation - a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation" |
| 2. | imputation - the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously" |
IMPUTATION. The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill. Wolff, Sec. 3.
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