ascription

[ uh-skrip-shuh n ]

/ əˈskrɪp ʃən /

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noun

the act of ascribing.

a statement ascribing something, especially praise to the Deity.

Nearby words

ascorbic acid, ascospore, ascot, ascribe, ascribed status, ascription, ascriptive, ascs, ascu, asculum, ascus

Also ad·scrip·tion

[ad-skrip-shuh n] /ædˈskrɪp ʃən/.

Origin of ascription

1590–1600; < Latin ascrīptiōn- (stem of ascrīptiō) a written addition. See a-⁵, script, -ion

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Examples from the Web for ascription

After a period of ascription to Titian, this portrait is now re-assigned to Palma; see below, p. 315.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various
Moussorgsky I have styled a "primitive," and I fancy it is as good an ascription as another.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks|James Huneker
The ascription to him of this inferior work is decidedly doubtful.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various
Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
Essays, Second Series|Ralph Waldo Emerson

Major, Mr. Brown insists, is "the sole authority for the ascription to James of the vernacular poems."
Ephemera Critica|John Churton Collins

British Dictionary definitions for ascription

ascription

adscription (ədˈskrɪpʃən)

/ (əˈskrɪpʃən) /

noun

the act of ascribing

a statement ascribing something to someone, esp praise to God

Word Origin for ascription

C16: from Latin ascrīptiō, from ascrībere to ascribe

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ascription

adscription (ədˈskrɪpʃən)

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