imputable
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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:
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
"What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the US and engages the United States' international responsibility," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2011
Is not guilt imputable to an action like this?
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
There is no room, however, for the allegation made; and the full amount of her slumber is justly imputable to the gross darkness which so long enveloped the horizon of Russia.
Therefore it does not seem imputable to the seller if the buyer be deceived in his judgment, and be hurried into buying a thing without carefully inquiring into its condition.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas