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Meanings of ascription in English

Portuguese
atribuição
Catalan
adscripció
Spanish
atribución

Assigning to a cause or source.

atribuição
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Examples for "attribution"
Examples for "attribution"
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Police question the causes of death and their attribution to the conflict.
Reuters
2
Whether such attribution would be warranted or not is beside the point.
The Irish Times
3
But the attribution may be due to the brevity of the narrative.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
4
The attribution of paternity to Tom Atkinson of Glenwilliam is therefore absurd.
The Irish Times
5
With 15 chemical elements, the tool offers high flexibility in formula attribution.
Pubmed
Usage of ascription in English
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Urania, you know -ifone may stretch the ascription a bit-encouraging Clio.
Bring the Jubilee
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The prayer customarily ends with an ascription of praise and glory to GOD.
Religious Reality: A Book for Men
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The stereotypes are still recognisable, but their ascription has been reversed.
The Guardian
4
But I pay no attention to this ascription of greatness; I laugh at it.
The Goose Man
5
Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
Essays — Second Series
6
Spencer has always, in my opinion with full right, repudiated the ascription of materialism.
Darwin and Modern Science
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This approach omits intention altogether, not to mention the ascription of desire and belief.
Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
8
We favor the interpretation that minimizes the ascription of error.
Economics Without Illusions
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But there our ascription of merit to Thomas must stop.
The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary
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Both these considerations render its ascription to David utterly untenable.
Introduction to the Old Testament
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We must bow, however, to the judgment of the learned Bredius who made the ascription.
Promenades of an Impressionist
12
Humbug, ascription of praise to, generally believed in.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
13
There are several more examples of mistaken ascription.
The Gospels in the Second Century / An Examination of the Critic...
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So far in eloquent ascription of incomparable excellence to the Bible and to the Founder of Christianity.
Classic French Course in English
15
The ascription to Matthew Arnold was frequent.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
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This, and more to the same purpose, is implied in the ascription of indefeasible worth to every man.
The Essentials of Spirituality
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Translations for ascription
Portuguese
atribuição
Ascription through the time