Associations to the word «Ascription»

Wiktionary

ASCRIPTION, noun. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work, or other thing to someone or something.

Dictionary definition

ASCRIPTION, noun. 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".
ASCRIPTION, noun. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope