Ascription

Word ASCRIPTION
Character 10
Hyphenation as crip tion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Ascription"

What do we mean by ascription?

The act of ascribing. noun

A statement that ascribes. noun

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong, to be due, etc. noun

An expression ascribing; words in which one ascribes. noun

Also rarely adscription. noun

A prayer at the end of a sermon, ascribing praise to God. noun

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed. noun

The act of ascribing a quality or characteristic to someone or something noun

Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing noun

Assigning to a cause or source noun

The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other thing to someone or something.

The stratification of people according to inborn characteristics (such as race or sex) outside of their control.

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The word "ascription" in example sentences

Much in that ascription is obviously maodish and oversimplified. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(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. ❋ Admin (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Attaingnant's chronological priority and greater authority lend weight to his ascription, which is reinforced by the similarity of the work to other Magnificat settings by Divitis including his customary chordal emphasis of the word ‘divites’ in the ‘Esurientes’ verse. ❋ Lu (2009)

There is some kind of ascription unto ourselves in this matter; which is boasting. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

This is a classic piece of nonsense, committing the twin crimes of a vague assertion about ‘us’ and mis-ascription of agency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate, since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most damningly, this mode of (un) ethical (un) reasoning is responsible for all manner of inequity and iniquity, since the ascription of "essential" and "perverted" purposes to actions is often pseudo-rational at best. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

It is a racist ascription of guilt to an entire collective of people based upon their ancestry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You are quite right, however, about the “arbitrary” (baseless) and “belligerent” ascription of racism by wunson, who keeps jutting out his jaw and inviting someone to call him an antisemite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

S1 would have a value of 1 when the legislature is selected by heredity or ascription, and 0 otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A code of 1 means that the legislature is chosen by heredity or ascription or is simply chosen by the effective executive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the most extensively against licenses, it commonly requires solely ascription. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those issuing these dystopian theocratic predictions emphasize sharia's incompatibility with core American democratic values -- individual liberty, consent to be governed, equality, and private property -- that are generally accredited to the Judeo-Christian tradition (a shorthand ascription that basks in the undue status of conventional wisdom). ❋ Unknown (2010)

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