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verb
transitive verb
to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly
The economic sins imputed to Tito had all been committed to a greater extent by the communist parties of neighbouring countries.—Hugh Seton-Watson
to credit or ascribe (something) to a person or a cause : attribute
our vices as well as our virtues have been imputed to bodily derangement—B. N. Cardozo
1620年代,源自中世纪拉丁语 imputabilis,源自拉丁语 imputare “指控,归因于”(见 impute)。相关词汇: Imputability。
Middle English, from Anglo-French imputer, from Latin imputare, from in- + putare to consider
The first known use of impute was in the 14th century
imputationnoun
the act or an instance of imputing
imputationnoun
the act or an instance of imputing
imputationnoun
the act or an instance of imputing
imputeverb
to give the blame or credit for to some person or cause
1 This almost unexampled instance of good health, though mostly, no doubt, imputable to a healthy season, must in some measure, also, be ascribed to the wise conduct of the captain.
2 The competitive system makes it economic, and of all the crimes imputable to the competitive system, this is the greatest, for it directly perverts not only the human body, but the human soul.
3 And while this tendency to evil is part of our natural condition, and therefore less imputable to us, it nevertheless is true that our actual sins and evil-doing are the work of our deliberate choice.
4 This invitation is imputable to the late news from England, and the grant of six millions by France was probably accelerated by it.
5 The oversight is not imputable to him.
这一疏忽不能怪他.
6 This younger son of a noble matron recognised even by himself as terrible enjoyed in no immediate or aggressive manner any imputable private heritage or privilege of arrogance.
7 When such evils happen, they surely are more imputable to the tyranny of the master than to the cruelty of the servant.
8 If the accident happened entirely without default on the part of the defendant, or blame imputable to him, the action does not lie ….The accident was clearly occasioned by the default of the defendant.
9 Mental degradation of, imputable, in some measure, to the cruel treatment of them in the West India islands, 466.
10 If our Affghan disasters were imputable to gross errors in detail, was it not right to denounce the cause?
11 Be not alarmed; the misrepresentation is not imputable to you.
12 Spain is probably the only country in Christendom, where concubinage was ever sanctioned by law; a circumstance doubtless imputable, in some measure, to the influence of the Mahometans.
13 I lay till daybreak the other morning endeavouring to draw a line of distinction between sin of direct malice and sin of malice indirect, or imputable only by the sequence.
14 Let us remember, that the sin of not even every unwarrantable innovation, is exclusively imputable to the innovator himself.
15 When a prosecutor offers him a chance to provide extenuating circumstances for his crimes—“Can you affirm that your acts are imputable to external influences of some kind ”—Sylvain is unable to follow the question:
16 If perchance the scales of justice be not correctly balanced, let the error be imputable to pity, not to gold.
17 The tardiness in this respect, however, cannot be said to be in any way imputable to a want of diligence, zeal or ability in the legation of the United States at Madrid.
18 The great errors and the great wrongs imputable to Cotton Mather do not make it impracticable to discern what was commendable in him.
19 If, perchance, the scales of justice be not correctly balanced, let the error be imputable to pity, not to gold.
20 Perhaps it may not be; but a careful Admonition is of that Moment, that Paul accounts it imputable to Mothers, if the Children degenerate from Piety.
1 可归罪
2 可归因于…的