imputable

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From impute + -able.

"If, perchance, the scales of justice be not correctly balanced, let the error be imputable to pity, not to gold. — Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
This happy change affords strong authority for the belief, that although the maladies which have heretofore afflicted us, were partly imputable to the climate, other, and more powerful causes of disease must have existed, which have vanished. — A New Guide for Emigrants to the West, John Mason Peck

ascribable, due, referable

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