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deattributions

deattributions is the plural of deattribution.

Meaning of deattribution

Noun

deattribution (plural deattributions)

  1. Discontinuance of attributing a work of art or literature, etc. to a particular creator, especially in a case where a work is reassigned from a prominent creator to a lesser or unknown creator.
    • Deattribution of Rembrandt paintings has been going on among art historians for decades, constantly winnowing a corpus inflated by the 17th- and 18th-century practice of regarding many works simply in Rembrandt's style as "by the master."1986 September 30, Douglas C. McGill, “Met to Relabel 2 of Its ‘Rembrandts’”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Sep 2015

Questions about deattributions

What is deattributions the plural of?
Deattributions is the plural of deattribution.

Words near deattributions in the dictionary

  1. deattribute
  2. deattributed
  3. deattributes
  4. deattributing
  5. deattribution
  6. deattributions
  7. deaurate
  8. deaurated
  9. deaurates
  10. deaurating
  11. deauration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deattributions (page history and authors); deattribution (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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