ascribe

verbassign to source

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verb assign to source

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accredit

verb. attribute responsibility or achievement

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for ascribe

That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.

Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.

To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.

The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.

I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.

For to ascribe an attribute, is to conceive or think of such attribute.

And to the Gods we ascribe virtues; but idleness and indolence are not virtues.

The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.

I am inclined to ascribe these feelings at bottom to egotism.

I do indeed wish that you should not ascribe to me motives so unworthy and so mean.

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accredit

assign

assigned

assigning

blame

blaming

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assign

assigned

assigning

blame

blaming

Synonyms for ascribe

accredit