Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being imputable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

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  • noun The character of being imputable.

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Examples

  • So both free-will and determinism have been inveighed against and called absurd, because each, in the eyes of its enemies, has seemed to prevent the 'imputability' of good or bad deeds to their authors.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

  • Someone who acted with grave but not full imputability.

    Vatican Council II: An Open Discussion 2009

  • But it is PEOPLE, i.e., moral agents capable of imputability, that constitute LCWR and that make specific choices about the positions LCWR advocates.

    The red-herrings of the LCWR 2009

  • Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist: 2007

  • Recognition of the imputability of action opens the way for consideration of the ethical and moral determinations of action.

    Paul Ricoeur Dauenhauer, Bernard 2005

  • All things being equal, I am automatically excommunicated according to the provision of Can. 1364, § 1, provided that the presaumptions of knowledge of the law and penalty (Can 15, § 2) and imputability (Can. 1321, § 3) are not rebutted in the external forum:

    John Kerry, Excommunicated? 2004

  • Provided that the presumptions of knowledge of the law and penalty Can. 15, § 2 and imputability

    John Kerry, Excommunicated? 2004

  • Error and ignorance in regard to the object or circumstances of the act to be placed, affect the judgment of the intellect and consequently the morality and imputability of the act.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Fear, violence, heredity, temperament and pathological states, in so far as they affect free volition, affect the malice and imputability of sin.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • From the defect arises the evil of the act, from the fact that it is voluntary, its imputability.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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