Dictionary

ascriptive en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) ascribing; relating to ascription

Deriveds

ascriptively

Translations (3)

es adscriptivo (Translations) · es adscripto (Translations) · de askriptiv (Translations)

ascriptive en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
   • 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:
   • 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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