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

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

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Nor is the Righteousness of Christ, strictly speaking, imputable to any one.

From Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines. by Finch, Richard

The agent is responsible, the actions are imputable.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul