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Attribution   /ˌætrɪbjˈuʃən/   Listen
Attribution

noun
1.
Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing.  Synonym: ascription.  "The ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
2.
Assigning to a cause or source.  Synonym: ascription.  "He questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"






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"Attribution" Quotes from Famous Books



... danger of false conceptions lies in the attribution of an unproved peculiarity to woman, by means of some beautifully expressed, and hence, apparently true, proverb. Consider the well known maxim: Man forgives a beautiful woman everything, woman nothing. Taken in itself the thing is true; we find ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... with class-characters or universals and thus our knowledge of universals as revealed by the perception of objects is not erroneous and is directly produced by objects. The Buddhists hold that the error of savikalpa perception consists in the attribution ...
— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... exactly what he suggested. "As a picture, Lord Theign, as a great portrait, one of the most genuine things in Europe. But it strikes me as probable that from far back—for reasons!—there has been a wrong attribution; that the work has been, in other words, traditionally, obstinately miscalled. It has passed for a Moretto, and at first I quite took it for one; but I suddenly, as I looked and looked and saw and saw, began to doubt, and now I ...
— The Outcry • Henry James

... The discovery and attribution of these figures is the work of K. Sudhoff. A bibliography of his writings on the subject will be found in a 'Study in Early Renaissance Anatomy' in C. Singer's Studies in the History and Method of Science, ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... of Brunswick having refused to accept the /Formula of Concord/, the professors at the university which he had founded felt themselves much more free in their teaching than those in other centres of Lutheranism. Calixt denied the ubiquity of Christ's body and the attribution of divine qualities to Christ's human nature. Though a strong opponent of several distinctly Catholic or Calvinist beliefs he saw much that was good in both, and he longed for a reunion of Christendom on the basis of an acceptance of the beliefs and practices ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey



Words linked to "Attribution" :   attributable, imputation, categorisation, zoomorphism, attribute, unattributable, externalisation, unascribable, sorting, classification, categorization, animatism, externalization



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