ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
had ascribed
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past perfectof ascribe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Its initial popularity was driven by influencers in New York and Los Angeles who had ascribed little-black-dress status to the skirt.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
Lindenauer argues that the 18th-century popular imagination took the same terrible attributes that the Puritans had ascribed to witches — malice, selfishness, coldness, absence of maternal impulse — and started ascribing them to stepmothers instead.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2017
At that same hearing, Mr. Olsen said the assault on the American mission and a nearby annex in Benghazi was a “terrorist attack,” the first time the administration had ascribed the attack to terrorists.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2012
The President had ascribed "high moral instincts" to the People in one breath, and in the next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Coupland Merridew was not actuated by the contemptible motive Aunt Constance had ascribed to him.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
