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Attribution   /ˌætrɪbjˈuʃən/   Listen
Attribution

noun
1.
Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing.  Synonym: ascription.  "The ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
2.
Assigning to a cause or source.  Synonym: ascription.  "He questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"






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"Attribution" Quotes from Famous Books



... and mobile and capable of producing all the beings that we see; to forego all search for a chimerical cause, and not to mistake for better knowledge of the moving force of the universe, merely a separate attribution of it to a Being placed outside of the great whole; to confess in good faith that their mind can neither conceive nor reconcile the negative attributes and theological abstractions with the human and moral qualities that are ascribed ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... Swerts and Guffens, showing figures of the evangelists St. Mark and St. John, surrounded by myriads of counts and countesses of Flanders, from the time of Louis de Nevers and Margaret of Artois to Charles the Bold, and Margaret of York, whose tombs are in the Cathedral at Bruges. The attribution of these frescoes to Melchior Broederlam does not, it would seem, accord with the style or the date of their production, M. Alph. van den Peereboom thinks, and he gives credit for the work to two painters who worked in Ypres in 1468—MM. ...
— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards

... and of Meres, no conclusive internal evidence has disposed of the theory of Shakespearean authorship. The play was enormously popular, if we may judge by contemporary references to it, and a mistake in attribution by Meres would therefore have been the more {143} remarkable. Incredible, too, as it may seem, the earlier versions must have been more revolting than Shakespeare's; so that there is really a ...
— An Introduction to Shakespeare • H. N. MacCracken

... Musica Divina and other modern anthologies, and it is hardly too much to say that they are for the most part worthy of Palestrina himself. The date of his death is conjecturally given as 1630. His brother, Giovanni Francesco, was born about 1567, and seems to have died about 1620. The occasional attribution of some of his numerous compositions to his elder brother is a pardonable mistake, if we may judge by the works that have been reprinted. But the statement, which continues to be repeated in standard works of reference, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various

... more virile figure and one to whom the attribution of genius need not be grudged, is the strong, pugnacious, eminently picturesque Charles Reade. It is a temptation to say that but for his use of a method and a technique hopelessly old-fashioned, he might claim close fellowship for gift and influence ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

... distribution may be distinguished: functional distribution is the attribution of value (yields) to wealth and labor considered impersonally, as groups of productive agents; and personal distribution is the actual movement of incomes into the control of persons.[1] Personal incomes, whether monetary, real, or psychic, are the sum of a number of ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter



Words linked to "Attribution" :   classification, ascription, sorting, attribute, unascribable, imputation, categorisation, unattributable, attributable, categorization, zoomorphism, externalization, externalisation, animatism



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