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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin