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ascriptive

ascriptive adjective: ascribing; relating to ascription.

Adjective

ascriptive (not comparable)

  1. ascribing; relating to ascription

Noun

ascriptive (plural ascriptives)

  1. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
    • Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.2008, Charles Bray Williams, The Participle in the Book of Acts, page 11
    • Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.2018, Jenefer Robinson, Music and Meaning, page 210

Forms of ascriptive

pluralascriptives

Words formed from ascriptive

Questions about ascriptive

What does ascriptive mean?
Ascriptive means ascribing; relating to ascription.
What part of speech is ascriptive?
Ascriptive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ascriptive in the dictionary

  1. ascribeth
  2. ascribing
  3. ascription
  4. ascriptions
  5. ascriptitious
  6. ascriptive
  7. ascriptively
  8. ascriptives
  9. ascrotal
  10. ASCs
  11. Ascupart

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