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Synonyms for ascribe

Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-skrahyb
Phonetic Transcription : əˈskraɪb

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Définition of ascribe

Origin :
  • mid-14c., ascrive, from Old French ascrivre "to inscribe; attribute, impute," from Latin ascribere "to write in, to add to in a writing," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + scribere "to write" (see script (n.)). Spelling restored by 16c. Related: Ascribed; ascribing.
  • verb assign to source
Example sentences :
  • That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • For to ascribe an attribute, is to conceive or think of such attribute.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • And to the Gods we ascribe virtues; but idleness and indolence are not virtues.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I am inclined to ascribe these feelings at bottom to egotism.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • I do indeed wish that you should not ascribe to me motives so unworthy and so mean.
  • Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

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