ascription

[ UK /ɐskɹˈɪpʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
    the attribution of language to birds
    the ascription to me of honors I had not earned
  2. assigning to a cause or source
    he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso
    the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath
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How To Use ascription In A Sentence

  • These questions lead to some reflections on the ways in which créolité translates time-honored models of literary history, while providing new ascriptions of literary genesis, genealogy, and genetic criticism.
  • This strategy for reconciling ascriptions of perfect goodness and omnipotence to God might be judged effective as long as three important theistic beliefs about God's power were respected by any such restriction.
  • While I have tried to identify as many poems as I can, many have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and are still devoid of ascription.
  • These ascriptions of meaning may be as public and contentious as the land claims of competing religions, or as particular and personal as the anchoring of ideals in iconic places.
  • When ascriptions are given, they are often incorrect.
  • Among Robert Gordon's distinctive contributions in (Gordon 1987) was the development of an idea first broached by (Thalberg 1977) that most ascriptions of emotions with propositional objects are "factive" ” that is, that they presuppose the truth of their propositional objects. Emotion
  • Dr Kruse accepts the traditional ascription of the Gospel to the apostle John, writing in Ephesus towards the end of the first century.
  • His conclusion is that God is only - and rarely - compared to a woman, whereas masculine ascriptions to God as metaphors are constitutive of a growing structure of meaning about God in the Bible.
  • Her ascription to Smithian discourse as the source for this ethic of reading and writing is problematic in that Smith's own writings undercut the sentimental version of narrative identification.
  • Just as we do with other humans, introspective experience allows ascription of similar mentality to other species.
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