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ascriptives

ascriptives is the plural of ascriptive.

Meaning of ascriptive

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

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Questions about ascriptives

What is ascriptives the plural of?
Ascriptives is the plural of ascriptive.

Words near ascriptives in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ascriptives (page history and authors); ascriptive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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