attributing

Verb

attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)

1. (transitive) To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.
   • For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV

   Synonyms:

   lay, impute, accredit, ascribe, attach, chalk up to, charge, draw, put down to, repose

2. (transitive) To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
   • This poem is attributed to Browning.

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