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

“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion. We’re moving toward a place where taste is the true arbiter,” she says.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

“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

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

Then come interpolations to make this ascription more probable, and the prefixing of a title, then or subsequently, which states it as a fact.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various