Ascribes

Word ASCRIBES
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /əˈskɹaɪbz/

Definitions and meanings of "Ascribes"

What do we mean by ascribes?

To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.

To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.

(with to) To believe in or agree with; subscribe.

1. To credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute. 2. To attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic. Urban Dictionary

Allocate to as being causal Urban Dictionary

A term used to jokingly describe the pseudoscience of astrology, first used and popularized by Katya Zamolodchikova on the YouTube series UNHhhh Urban Dictionary

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The word "ascribes" in example sentences

This is the one insight into psychical reality that Frankenstein ascribes to a female character. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He distinguishes it at any rate from the other "Flyting," which he definitely and by name ascribes to _Helgakviða_. ❋ W. P. Ker (N/A)

But I guess by your line of thinking, the legal system also "ascribes" innocence where guilt is unproven. ❋ ALW (2008)

G. Whittier, in his "Songs of Three Centuries," ascribes "Love divine, all love excelling" to that bitter Calvinist, Augustus M. Toplady, giving it as the sole specimen of his verse; when it was really written by the ardent Arminian, Charles Wesley, with whom Toplady was on anything but friendly terms. ❋ James Mudge (1881)

The fair was indisputably gorgeous, not an adjective one usually ascribes to a commercial venture of this sort, but the venue couldn't be characterized in any other way. ❋ Rebecca Taylor (2010)

Conventional wisdom ascribes a similar view to Woodrow Wilson. ❋ Andrew Levine (2010)

This argument is not entirely persuasive, precisely because Mr. Deacon sees absentials as defining properties of both life and mind, reaching all the way down to brainless organisms, to which he, surprisingly, ascribes sentience. ❋ Raymond Tallis (2011)

It was interesting that Josie took the halo at face value; she never ascribes any significance to it other than it is a miracle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It neither explains nor even ascribes motives to Mark Zuckerberg -- no vision, no strategy, no goals. ❋ Jeff Jarvis (2010)

Sooliman ascribes this support to the openness of his organization, and to its efficiency and professionalism. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What kind of motivations do you think he ascribes to that Uncle Watson guy in the reading passage? ❋ Alexandra Petri (2010)

"Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert," wrote the great economic historian R.H. Tawney in 1926. ❋ Jim Sleeper (2011)

And he has promised that even if we do achieve whatever Orwellian definition he ascribes to “victory” in Afghanistan, there will be more countries to destabilize, invade and occupy in the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I ascribed her as a [sexy fox] with [no brains] who needs to hop in my bed and play [Where's Waldo]?. ❋ Drunkenbeaverexploitationsects(FRATZ) (2007)

[Relations] exists between need for [achievement], ascribing and [prescription] for success and failure, beliefs with regards to abilities and self worth. ❋ Hercolena Oliver (2010)

[Rachel] is such a [nutjob] that she [actually] believes in planetary-ascribed biological determinism. ❋ Bobothebonobo (2020)

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