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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attribution |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, adscription, assignment, credit, recognition |
| Main Entry: | attribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of attributing |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, adscription, ascription, assignment, credit |
| Concept: | [Assignment of cause] Attribution. |
| Category: | 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for; palaetiology, imputation, derivation from., filiation, affiliation; pedigree (paternity)., explanation (interpretation); reason why (cause).
-verbs
attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason [more]; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.
-adjectives
attributed; attributable; referable to, referible to, due to, derivable from; owing to (effect); putative; ecbatic.
-adverbs
hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to; on that account; from this cause, from that cause; thanks to, forasmuch as; whence, propter hoc., why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen?, in some way, in some such way; somehow, somehow or other.
-phrases
that is why; hinc illae lachrymae [Horace. "Hence those tears" (Latin)].
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| Antonyms: | chance |
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