imputation

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That which gained him the imputation was the fact that his nature was without a particle of the aggressive, and all its defensive of as purely negative a character as was possible.

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  1. noun The act of imputing or ascribing; attribution.
  2. noun Something imputed, ascribed, or attributed.

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  • Now the imputation is of a precisely opposite character.... Both charges, sir, are equally without the slightest foundation. —  Daniel Webster
  • Not to misstate this utterly unfounded imputation, the very words of Wood, as first printed in his Athenæ in 1691, and never since modified, are here given in full But notwithstanding his great skill in mathematics, he had strange thoughts of the scripture, and always undervalued the old story of the creation of the world, and could never believe that trite position, Ex nihilo nihil fit. —  Thomas Hariot
  • Henceforth no Dissenter could communicate in the parish churches of his country without incurring some risk of an imputation which is especially revolting to all feelings alike of honour and religion. —  The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
  • On every hand there has been a most deplorable impeachment of motive, accompanied by a detraction of character by imputation which is quite shocking. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
  • Judgement concerning the spiritual life of a man, or the internal life of the soul, is meant by the imputation which is here treated of. —  The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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  1. = French imputation = Spanish imputacion = Portuguese imputação = Italian imputazione, from Late Latin imputatio(n-), inputatio(n-), a charge, an account, from imputare, inputare, charge, impute: see impute.
 

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