ascription
Example Sentences
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“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion. We’re moving toward a place where taste is the true arbiter,” she says.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
“Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate,” Conway and Kochen write, “since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom.”
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2021
We desire to be recognised for who we really are, and seek in our very ascription the means of uniting our intimate identities with our social selves.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2015
To some extent, the ascription of malevolent powers to chemicals is an attempt to explain behavior that otherwise seems inexplicable.
From Forbes ● Aug. 21, 2014
One is the general ascription of glory to the Three Persons together, both by fathers and churches, and that on continuous tradition and from the earliest times.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
