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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