0 a belief or decision that a particular quality or feature belongs to or is typical of someone or something:
1 a belief or claim that something was said, written, or created by a particular person:
The ascription of the text to Gerves du Bus is questionable.
2 a belief or claim that something is caused by something else:
Animism is the ascription of a spiritual life to all of creation.
Her tendency to sweeping generalizations and ascription of motivation is clear.
We've learned something that might be relevant to the legal ascription of responsibility.
the ascription of traditional domestic and non-domestic roles to the female and male characters in the book
The general likeness of this poem to Barbour's accepted work in verse-length, dialect and style made the ascription plausible.
The ascription to Sir William Coventry arose because the printer used a manuscript found among Coventry’s papers.
The author accepts the ascription of all these treatises to Khayyam.
The ascription of this argument to Alexander seems reasonable.
