meaning of imputation
1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
2. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
3. 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.
4. Opinion; intimation; hint.
5. the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken
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