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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impute.

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  • He now thinks of us as righteous because He imputes, that is He gives to us the righteousness of Christ which has been won on the cross.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • He now thinks of us as righteous because He imputes, that is He gives to us the righteousness of Christ which has been won on the cross.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The ancient rabbinic text, the Mishnah, states: "A single man was created in the world, to teach that if any man has caused a single soul to perish, scripture imputes it to him as if he had caused a whole world to perish, and if any man saves alive a single soul, scripture imputes it to him as if he had saved alive a whole world..."

    Rabbi Jack Bemporad: An Open Letter To Congress From Leaders of the Faith Community: Don't Cut Foreign Aid! Rabbi Jack Bemporad 2011

  • Thus an assertion which does not suggest discreditable conduct by the plaintiff may still be defamatory if it imputes to him or her a condition calculated to diminish the respect and confidence in which the plaintiff is held.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Note in particular how the opinion imputes the motivations of the narrators in the 2 Live Crew version to the narrator in the Orbison song.

    If a book meets a book coming through the rye Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • The ancient rabbinic text, the Mishnah, states: "A single man was created in the world, to teach that if any man has caused a single soul to perish, scripture imputes it to him as if he had caused a whole world to perish, and if any man saves alive a single soul, scripture imputes it to him as if he had saved alive a whole world..."

    Rabbi Jack Bemporad: An Open Letter To Congress From Leaders of the Faith Community: Don't Cut Foreign Aid! Rabbi Jack Bemporad 2011

  • Note in particular how the opinion imputes the motivations of the narrators in the 2 Live Crew version to the narrator in the Orbison song.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • So if your reaction to the guy on the street at the top of this column was to step up your pace and get away from him (which corresponds to saying "this is nuts" and closing your browser window), your opinion would not affect the outcome -- but if you happen to be a Republican, Harris's methodology imputes to you a likelihood of holding crazy views.

    'Wingnuts': An Autobiography? James Taranto 2010

  • Attributing a "natural" quality to Greek humanity, Schiller also imputes ethnic character, falling readily into a racialized stereotype in a way that makes us nervous about the similarly collective and not-quite intentional sense of "culture" today.

    Rei Terada 2008

  • On the gripping hand, all this imputes a degree of strategic clarity to Obama and his advisers for which there is no real evidence.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strategy Gap in Afghanistan 2008

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