ascribe
- to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.
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Contemporary Examples of ascribe
Different boycotters will ascribe different meanings to the same act.
Yet neither expressed any interest in the legend that so many people want to ascribe to the man.
To the contrary, they ascribe to the belief that more guns on campus, in the hands of the right people, will make them safer.
All they have to do is attribute or ascribe as much income as possible to foreign subsidiaries.
What drives the human impulse to ascribe divine meaning to tragic events?
Historical Examples of ascribe
To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.
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That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.
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ascribe
- to credit or assign, as to a particular origin or periodto ascribe parts of a play to Shakespeare
- to attribute as a quality; consider as belonging toto ascribe beauty to youth