Definitions of imputation

1. the attribution to a source or cause; " the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"

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.

5. Opinion; intimation; hint.

6. Act of imputing or charging: censure: reproach: the reckoning as belonging to.

7. The act of imputing; a censure or reproach.

8. The act of imputing; the charge against one; the attribution of the guilt or the righteousness of one to another, who is by natural or spiritual descent of the same stock.

9. Charge of evil; censure; reproach; charging to the account of one what properly belongs to another.