imputation

From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪm.pjʊˈteɪ.ʃən/

  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

imputation (countable and uncountable, plural imputations)

1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another

   the imputation of the sin of Adam

   the imputation of the righteousness of Christ

5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     All the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of Henry Akeley’s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace.

• imputability
• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• impute

• imputation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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imputation f (plural imputations)

1. imputation