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单词 ascription
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Definition of ascription in English:

ascription

noun əˈskrɪpʃ(ə)nəˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1The attribution of something to a cause.

    the ascription of effect to cause
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Less often are we aware of the privileges accorded us by affiliation and ascription; I did get a job interview, a grant, a publication offer because of my academic pedigree, my identity, or both.
    • The hundreds of texts on this theme contain two main elements: the description of the experience; and its ascription to the nightmare.
    • Modern psycho-analysts question this physical ascription as they work on the basis that our cognitions and emotions have a greater role than repetition of physical acts in forming habits.
    • Given this discrepancy, solution may be elusive, and ascription of the patterns to a pervasive pathology whose outbreaks are unpredictable makes sense.
    • An account of our mental habits does enter into the explanation of our ascriptions of causality; but this is not to say that when we attribute causal properties to some physical object, we are also making an assertion about ourselves.
    1. 1.1 The attribution of a text, quotation, or work of art to a particular person or period.
      her ascription of the text to Boccaccio
      questions of authorial ascription
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The eleven poems not definitely known to be by writers other than Shakespeare are included in the Oxford edition, with a statement that the ascription is very doubtful.
      • While I have tried to identify as many poems as I can, many have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and are still devoid of ascription.
      • Assessing the available evidence about the life history of ‘The Recruited Collier,’ Roy Palmer concluded that Lloyd's ascription of it to Huxtable is untenable.
      • And why use anonymous transmission during Josquin's lifetime as negative evidence when we really know so little about why a piece bears an ascription in one source but not in another?
      • Dr Kruse accepts the traditional ascription of the Gospel to the apostle John, writing in Ephesus towards the end of the first century.
      • Perched above my desk is an old Christmas card with a reproduction of a seventeenth-century Italian etching of the Madonna and Child, the ascription of the artist long since lost.
      • Another ascription is to Nicetas of Remesiana, a Dacian bishop of the early 5th century.
      • For Philips's ensemble works, the ascription is usually abbreviated to ‘P.P.’
      • But while I have tried to put poets to as many poems as I can, most verses have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and elude ascription.
      • These questions lead to some reflections on the ways in which créolité translates time-honored models of literary history, while providing new ascriptions of literary genesis, genealogy, and genetic criticism.
      • This ascription has notoriously become a matter of debate and controversy in the modern era.
      • This ascription depends on dating Berling's print of the ‘Rest on the Flight into Egypt’ to 1795, as I did in an earlier paper.
      • When ascriptions are given, they are often incorrect.
      • Furthermore, it seems likely that 52's ascription is the source for the other three ascriptions to Monck.
      • All four, however, lack ascriptions, and presumably their composer's name was omitted simply because Nathaniel saw no need to write it out.
      • The authors of the Homilies are hard in some cases to specify, and there is wide discrepancy in ascription.
      • There are excellent reasons for maintaining the traditional ascriptions of Gospel authorship, when standard tests for such determinations are applied;
      • However, the style of the ascriptions of works to Philips in the section devoted to instrumental works may be an important clue in support of the hypothesis.
      • Her ascription to Smithian discourse as the source for this ethic of reading and writing is problematic in that Smith's own writings undercut the sentimental version of narrative identification.
    2. 1.2 The action of regarding a quality as belonging to someone or something.
      the ascription of special personal qualities to political leaders
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In any proportionality inquiry the relevant interests must be identified, and there will be some ascription of weight or value to those interests, since this is a necessary condition precedent to any balancing operation.
      • Yet even this ascription of purity was streaked with ambiguity.
      • His conclusion is that God is only - and rarely - compared to a woman, whereas masculine ascriptions to God as metaphors are constitutive of a growing structure of meaning about God in the Bible.
      • If we conclude that the ascription of sensations and feelings to a disembodied spirit does not make sense, it does not obviously follow, as you might think, that we must deny the possibility of disembodied spirits altogether.
      • Marian's writing and eavesdropping defies the traditional ascription of maleness to narrative agency, although it is later re-established.
      • The ascription of such powerlessness has been part of an assault on institutions by social scientists, among others.
      • At the same time, they are careful to avoid any blanket ascription of authority to scripture.
      • Knowledge of the law is hardly an appropriate test on which to base ascription of responsibility to the mentally disordered.
      • The most noticeable rhetorical development in this sequence is the profound infantilization of Stephen's represented speech and the repeated ascription of shyness, timidity, and silence to Stephen and his soul.
      • There's an underlying ascription of bad faith to language writers, that they are somehow cultural commissars, in a sentence like that.
      • These ascriptions of meaning may be as public and contentious as the land claims of competing religions, or as particular and personal as the anchoring of ideals in iconic places.
      • Matthew and Luke somehow stumble over Mark's bald ‘all things are possible to you’, a traditional ascription of omnipotence.
      • Too much emphasis on feeling or ascription of meaning could only obscure what was truly musical about music, its articulation of style, form, and structure.
      • Just as we do with other humans, introspective experience allows ascription of similar mentality to other species.
      • For surely our ordinary judgments typically, if not exclusively, are motivated by moral concerns - in particular, the ascription of responsibility, the recognition of rights and obligations, and the acknowledgment of commitments.
      • The author puts ‘to the Hebrews’ in quotation marks because he, like many other scholars currently working on Hebrews, does not believe that this ascription describes the addressees of this text.
      • Without ascriptions of meaning, formal and analytical knowledge is inert, unactualised, imperceptible.
      • The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
      • This strategy for reconciling ascriptions of perfect goodness and omnipotence to God might be judged effective as long as three important theistic beliefs about God's power were respected by any such restriction.
      • In their mind, the more religious, the more simple-minded - an ascription to which they adhere equally when thinking of their own Orthodox Jewish brethren.
    3. 1.3count noun A preacher's words ascribing praise to God at the end of a sermon.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even when the trinitarian ascription of praise is not used, ‘forever’ ends prayers.
      • ‘Lord and Our God’ was the royal ascription in use about the time John was written.
      • Reaching us, every human being must grasp our hands, amid exclamations of ‘Bress you, mas'r,’ and ‘Bress de Lord,’ at the rate of four of the latter ascriptions to one of the former.
      • This ascription of praise to ‘Our Father ‘is found in 491 out of 500 existing manuscripts.’

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin ascriptio(n-), from the verb ascribere (see ascribe).

Rhymes

circumscription, conscription, decryption, description, Egyptian, encryption, inscription, misdescription, prescription, subscription, superscription, transcription
 
 

Definition of ascription in US English:

ascription

nounəˈskrɪpʃ(ə)nəˈskripSH(ə)n
  • 1The attribution of something to a cause.

    an ascription of effect to cause
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Given this discrepancy, solution may be elusive, and ascription of the patterns to a pervasive pathology whose outbreaks are unpredictable makes sense.
    • An account of our mental habits does enter into the explanation of our ascriptions of causality; but this is not to say that when we attribute causal properties to some physical object, we are also making an assertion about ourselves.
    • Less often are we aware of the privileges accorded us by affiliation and ascription; I did get a job interview, a grant, a publication offer because of my academic pedigree, my identity, or both.
    • Modern psycho-analysts question this physical ascription as they work on the basis that our cognitions and emotions have a greater role than repetition of physical acts in forming habits.
    • The hundreds of texts on this theme contain two main elements: the description of the experience; and its ascription to the nightmare.
    1. 1.1 The attribution of a text, quotation, or work of art to a particular person or period.
      her ascription of the text to Boccaccio
      questions of authorial ascription
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her ascription to Smithian discourse as the source for this ethic of reading and writing is problematic in that Smith's own writings undercut the sentimental version of narrative identification.
      • Another ascription is to Nicetas of Remesiana, a Dacian bishop of the early 5th century.
      • This ascription has notoriously become a matter of debate and controversy in the modern era.
      • But while I have tried to put poets to as many poems as I can, most verses have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and elude ascription.
      • Perched above my desk is an old Christmas card with a reproduction of a seventeenth-century Italian etching of the Madonna and Child, the ascription of the artist long since lost.
      • This ascription depends on dating Berling's print of the ‘Rest on the Flight into Egypt’ to 1795, as I did in an earlier paper.
      • Furthermore, it seems likely that 52's ascription is the source for the other three ascriptions to Monck.
      • For Philips's ensemble works, the ascription is usually abbreviated to ‘P.P.’
      • The eleven poems not definitely known to be by writers other than Shakespeare are included in the Oxford edition, with a statement that the ascription is very doubtful.
      • These questions lead to some reflections on the ways in which créolité translates time-honored models of literary history, while providing new ascriptions of literary genesis, genealogy, and genetic criticism.
      • The authors of the Homilies are hard in some cases to specify, and there is wide discrepancy in ascription.
      • However, the style of the ascriptions of works to Philips in the section devoted to instrumental works may be an important clue in support of the hypothesis.
      • There are excellent reasons for maintaining the traditional ascriptions of Gospel authorship, when standard tests for such determinations are applied;
      • While I have tried to identify as many poems as I can, many have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and are still devoid of ascription.
      • When ascriptions are given, they are often incorrect.
      • All four, however, lack ascriptions, and presumably their composer's name was omitted simply because Nathaniel saw no need to write it out.
      • And why use anonymous transmission during Josquin's lifetime as negative evidence when we really know so little about why a piece bears an ascription in one source but not in another?
      • Assessing the available evidence about the life history of ‘The Recruited Collier,’ Roy Palmer concluded that Lloyd's ascription of it to Huxtable is untenable.
      • Dr Kruse accepts the traditional ascription of the Gospel to the apostle John, writing in Ephesus towards the end of the first century.
    2. 1.2 The action of regarding a quality as belonging to someone or something.
      the author's ascription of human attributes to his hero or villain
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Just as we do with other humans, introspective experience allows ascription of similar mentality to other species.
      • The author puts ‘to the Hebrews’ in quotation marks because he, like many other scholars currently working on Hebrews, does not believe that this ascription describes the addressees of this text.
      • Matthew and Luke somehow stumble over Mark's bald ‘all things are possible to you’, a traditional ascription of omnipotence.
      • Without ascriptions of meaning, formal and analytical knowledge is inert, unactualised, imperceptible.
      • At the same time, they are careful to avoid any blanket ascription of authority to scripture.
      • There's an underlying ascription of bad faith to language writers, that they are somehow cultural commissars, in a sentence like that.
      • The most noticeable rhetorical development in this sequence is the profound infantilization of Stephen's represented speech and the repeated ascription of shyness, timidity, and silence to Stephen and his soul.
      • For surely our ordinary judgments typically, if not exclusively, are motivated by moral concerns - in particular, the ascription of responsibility, the recognition of rights and obligations, and the acknowledgment of commitments.
      • In any proportionality inquiry the relevant interests must be identified, and there will be some ascription of weight or value to those interests, since this is a necessary condition precedent to any balancing operation.
      • Too much emphasis on feeling or ascription of meaning could only obscure what was truly musical about music, its articulation of style, form, and structure.
      • The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
      • The ascription of such powerlessness has been part of an assault on institutions by social scientists, among others.
      • Marian's writing and eavesdropping defies the traditional ascription of maleness to narrative agency, although it is later re-established.
      • This strategy for reconciling ascriptions of perfect goodness and omnipotence to God might be judged effective as long as three important theistic beliefs about God's power were respected by any such restriction.
      • Yet even this ascription of purity was streaked with ambiguity.
      • These ascriptions of meaning may be as public and contentious as the land claims of competing religions, or as particular and personal as the anchoring of ideals in iconic places.
      • Knowledge of the law is hardly an appropriate test on which to base ascription of responsibility to the mentally disordered.
      • His conclusion is that God is only - and rarely - compared to a woman, whereas masculine ascriptions to God as metaphors are constitutive of a growing structure of meaning about God in the Bible.
      • In their mind, the more religious, the more simple-minded - an ascription to which they adhere equally when thinking of their own Orthodox Jewish brethren.
      • If we conclude that the ascription of sensations and feelings to a disembodied spirit does not make sense, it does not obviously follow, as you might think, that we must deny the possibility of disembodied spirits altogether.
    3. 1.3 A preacher's words ascribing praise to God at the end of a sermon.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Reaching us, every human being must grasp our hands, amid exclamations of ‘Bress you, mas'r,’ and ‘Bress de Lord,’ at the rate of four of the latter ascriptions to one of the former.
      • Even when the trinitarian ascription of praise is not used, ‘forever’ ends prayers.
      • This ascription of praise to ‘Our Father ‘is found in 491 out of 500 existing manuscripts.’
      • ‘Lord and Our God’ was the royal ascription in use about the time John was written.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin ascriptio(n-), from the verb ascribere (see ascribe).

 
 
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