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
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“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
Being a Negro writer, he explained to the critic Kenneth Burke, was not a racial ascription but a cultural legacy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
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
Now we find ourselves in a society in which the majority of people identify themselves as being middle class, but this ascription owes more to digestion than it does to acculturation, let alone occupation.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2012
Nor is the ascription of existence to universality, particularity, and co-inhesion dependent on any sui generis existence of their own; for such an hypothesis is operose, requiring too many sui generis existences.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
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