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English

Noun

The act of ascribe|ascribing a quality or characteristic to.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ascription \As*crip"tion\, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See
Ascribe.]
The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also,
that which is ascribed.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet ascription
n 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" [syn: attribution]
2: assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting
to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the
attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: attribution]