ascribe

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Let me remark with the deepest sincerity--ascribe it not, I beseech you, to cant and hypocrisy--that if these statements are partially true, it must be because power has been given me from above.

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  1. transitive verb To attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin: "Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism” (Daniel Pinchbeck). See Synonyms at attribute.
  2. transitive verb To assign as a quality or characteristic: was quick to ascribe jealousy to her critics.

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  • Evidently, in my double character of citizen and musician, I am not even to exonerate myself from the fault you [ascribe] to me. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
  • But then you get a customized version of the Steelers current uniforms to ascribe his name? —  Kissing Suzy Kolber
  • There was a time when we could ascribe, to people who murdered without mercy, a dark desire for the worst kind of fame. —  CNN.com
  • For the moment my purpose was rather to put before my readers some idea of the man himself whose teaching is now exercising so deep an influence on the religious tendencies of the hour Every time you read of the vicar of a parish changing pulpits with his Nonconformist brother; every philanthropic meeting you hear of as addressed by clergymen of all denominations; every garden party given by a bishop or a dean to a Dissenters' Conference; every advance you gratefully note towards a wise and patient tolerance of theological dissensions, the sinking of sectional differences in the interests of a higher and purer life--ascribe it all to the beneficent influence of Immanuel Kant. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
  • The Dhusar Banias ascribe their name to a hill called Dhusi or Dhosi on the border of Alwar State. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
 

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  1. Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre, from Latin ascrībere : ad-, ad- + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Altered to ascribe (after L.) from early modern English ascrive, from Middle English ascriven, from Old French ascrire (ascriv-) = Italian ascrivere, from Latin ascribere, annex by writing, add to a writing, enroll, enter in a list, impute, attribute, from ad, to, + scribere, write: see scribe.
 

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