Associations to the word «Ascription»
Noun
Adjective
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
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.