ascription
Americannoun
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the act of ascribing
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a statement ascribing something to someone, esp praise to God
Etymology
Origin of ascription
1590–1600; < Latin ascrīptiōn- (stem of ascrīptiō ) a written addition. See a- 5, script, -ion
Example Sentences
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“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion. We’re moving toward a place where taste is the true arbiter,” she says.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
“Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate,” Conway and Kochen write, “since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom.”
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2021
We desire to be recognised for who we really are, and seek in our very ascription the means of uniting our intimate identities with our social selves.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2015
To some extent, the ascription of malevolent powers to chemicals is an attempt to explain behavior that otherwise seems inexplicable.
From Forbes ● Aug. 21, 2014
His ascription to man of a unique faculty, free-will, forbade his conceiving our species as a link in a graduated series of organic developments.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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