Imputation: Definition and part of speech

Imputation

  1. Opinion; intimation; hint.
  2. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
  3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
  4. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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