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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription: as, the imputation of wrong motives.
  2. n. That which is imputed or charged; specifically, an attribution of something censurable or evil; censure; reproach.
  3. n. The erroneous ascription of effect to cause: as, the imputation of a disease to witchcraft.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
  2. n. That which has been imputed or charged.
  3. n. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
  4. n. 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.
  5. n. Opinion; intimation; hint.

GNU Webster's 1913

  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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the attribution to a source or cause
  2. n. a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense)

Etymologies

  1. From Latin imputatio (ascribe) (Wiktionary)

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