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misascription

noun

Etymology

From mis- + ascription.

Definitions

  1. The act or process of misascribing.

    • Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich.

  2. The result thereof

    The result thereof: an incorrect ascription; for example, the ascription of a quality to someone or something which does not possess it, or the ascription of a quotation to someone who did not originate it.

    • The idea that Tycho wrote it was a misascription.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misascription. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA