Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To attribute incorrectly.
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- verb To erroneously attribute; to falsely
ascribe ; used especially ofauthorship .
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Examples
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You greatly misattribute the situation in the Middle East.
The Rise Of Feminism And The Fall Of The Family: Part 2 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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My concern with Rand is that she has her heroic capitalists acting morally but seems to misattribute that morality to the marketplace.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Ayn Rand Bad for Libertarianism? 2009
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But if I see the debate as suffering — that the sides are missing each others points — and especially of missing each others points is contributing to feelings of ill will even in situations with bad faith, to view more bad faith than is actually there, or to misattribute it, then I fear that any efforts I make to argue for my view will be in vain.
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My concern with Rand is that she has her heroic capitalists acting morally but seems to misattribute that morality to the marketplace.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Ayn Rand Bad for Libertarianism? 2009
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Many carried generalized titles such as River Scene with Barges, enabling others subsequently to identify them as scenes in ‘Constable country’ and to misattribute them to Constable himself.
Archive 2008-04-01 Hermes 2008
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Looking at the one (s) in the middle, it's easy to misread the names as headers rather than footers and misattribute the comments to the person who made the comment before.
Today 2006
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But when sensory information is restricted, as happens during meditation or prayer, people are "more likely to misattribute internally generated thoughts to an external source," suggests psychologist Richard Bentall of the University of Manchester in England in the book "Varieties of Anomalous Experience."
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If this is part of a more general failure to deal appropriately with context, it could explain why some sufferers might misattribute people's actions or feel persecuted.
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Perhaps we should wait, however, until the program is shown on Wednesday to see if Starkey really does misattribute the phrase to Goebbels.
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It seems to arise when you misattribute inner speech (the "little voice" in your head that you know you generate yourself) to something outside yourself.
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