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

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.

From The Shepherd Of My Soul by Callan, Charles Jerome

And poets who write of the events of that time shall not need to justify themselves in prefaces for ever so little jarring of the national sentiment imputable to their rhymes.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

If, perchance, the scales of justice be not correctly balanced, let the error be imputable to pity, not to gold.

From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de