Definition of "ascription" []

• The act of ascribing. (noun)
• A statement that ascribes. (noun)

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• "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."
• "Traditions of the Apostle’s sayings, historical and legendary, the established and those whose ascription is doubtful; and I have studied the exact sciences, geometry and philosophy and medicine and logic and rhetoric and composition; and I have learnt many things by rote and am passionately fond of poetry."