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n. - Assigning to a cause or source; Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing.

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Usage examples (29)
  • The ascription to me of honors I had not earned
  • Much in that ascription is obviously maodish and oversimplified.
  • (Note: secular categories have been self-ascribed as well as this self-ascription is mandated by a US Census Bureau which has racialized a census from a inception.
  • There is some kind of ascription unto ourselves in this matter; which is boasting.
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