Associations to the word «Ascription»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

ASCRIPTION, noun. Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned".
ASCRIPTION, noun. Assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso".

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan