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What does ascription mean?

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Noun
  1. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work, or other thing to someone or something.
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The authors of the Homilies are hard in some cases to specify, and there is wide discrepancy in ascription.
There's an underlying ascription of bad faith to language writers, that they are somehow cultural commissars, in a sentence like that.
Knowledge of the law is hardly an appropriate test on which to base ascription of responsibility to the mentally disordered.
Another ascription is to Nicetas of Remesiana, a Dacian bishop of the early 5th century.
It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility.
The ascription of such powerlessness has been part of an assault on institutions by social scientists, among others.

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