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“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion.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
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
One is the general ascription of glory to the Three Persons together, both by fathers and churches, and that on continuous tradition and from the earliest times.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
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