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To relate to a particular cause or source; ascribe: attributed their failure to a lack of preparation.
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To regard as the work of a specified agent, place, or time: attributed the painting to Titian; attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan.
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A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
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An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office: Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus.
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Grammar A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.
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