ascription

American  

[uh-skrip-shuhn] / əˈskrɪp ʃən /

Also adscription

noun

1. the act of ascribing.

2. a statement ascribing something, especially praise to the Deity.

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ascription British  

/ əˈskrɪpʃən, ədˈskrɪpʃən /

noun

1. the act of ascribing

2. a statement ascribing something to someone, esp praise to God

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Etymology

Origin of ascription

1590–1600; < Latin ascrīptiōn- (stem of ascrīptiō ) a written addition. See a- ⁵, script, -ion

Example Sentences

“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

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

Nor is the ascription of existence to universality, particularity, and co-inhesion dependent on any sui generis existence of their own; for such an hypothesis is operose, requiring too many sui generis existences.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava