ascription

How To Use ascription In A Sentence

• Too many commentators opt much too quickly for an ascription of confusion in order fallaciously to 'solve' a problem in textual interpretation.
• Assessing the available evidence about the life history of ‘The Recruited Collier,’ Roy Palmer concluded that Lloyd's ascription of it to Huxtable is untenable.
• The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
• The most noticeable rhetorical development in this sequence is the profound infantilization of Stephen's represented speech and the repeated ascription of shyness, timidity, and silence to Stephen and his soul.
• the ascription to me of honors I had not earned
• For Philips's ensemble works, the ascription is usually abbreviated to ‘P.P.’
• The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
• Of course, the ascription is tenuous, and wars are fought over the erasure of place, as though to suggest it was malleable.
• This ascription has notoriously become a matter of debate and controversy in the modern era.
• All four, however, lack ascriptions, and presumably their composer's name was omitted simply because Nathaniel saw no need to write it out.