Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of ascribing.
- noun A statement that ascribes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong, to be due, etc.
- noun An expression ascribing; words in which one ascribes.
- noun Also rarely adscription.
- noun A prayer at the end of a sermon, ascribing praise to God.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
ascribing aquality orcharacteristic to someone or something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
- noun assigning to a cause or source
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word ascription.
Examples
-
Much in that ascription is obviously maodish and oversimplified.
-
Much in that ascription is obviously maodish and oversimplified.
-
(Note: secular categories have been self-ascribed as well as this self-ascription is mandated by a US Census Bureau which has racialized a census from a inception.
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice: The Murder of Marcelo Lucero ... admin 2009
-
(Note: secular categories have been self-ascribed as well as this self-ascription is mandated by a US Census Bureau which has racialized a census from a inception.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
-
Traditions of the Apostle’s sayings, historical and legendary, the established and those whose ascription is doubtful; and I have studied the exact sciences, geometry and philosophy and medicine and logic and rhetoric and composition; and I have learnt many things by rote and am passionately fond of poetry.
-
Attaingnant's chronological priority and greater authority lend weight to his ascription, which is reinforced by the similarity of the work to other Magnificat settings by Divitis including his customary chordal emphasis of the word ‘divites’ in the ‘Esurientes’ verse.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
-
There is some kind of ascription unto ourselves in this matter; which is boasting.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
-
The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
-
Most damningly, this mode of (un) ethical (un) reasoning is responsible for all manner of inequity and iniquity, since the ascription of "essential" and "perverted" purposes to actions is often pseudo-rational at best.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
-
It is a racist ascription of guilt to an entire collective of people based upon their ancestry.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.