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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“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
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
Sophocles is said to have been much addicted to it.580.Some examples of the ascription of this vice to the divinities are given by Clem.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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