ascription

[ uh-skrip-shuh n ]

/ əˈskrɪp ʃən /

the act of ascribing.

a statement ascribing something, especially praise to the Deity.

Also ad·scrip·tion

[ad-skrip-shuh n] /ædˈskrɪp ʃən/.

Origin of ascription

1590–1600; < Latin ascrīptiōn- (stem of ascrīptiō) a written addition. See a-⁵, script, -ion

After a period of ascription to Titian, this portrait is now re-assigned to Palma; see below, p. 315.

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools |Various
Moussorgsky I have styled a "primitive," and I fancy it is as good an ascription as another.

Ivory Apes and Peacocks |James Huneker
The ascription to him of this inferior work is decidedly doubtful.

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools |Various
Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.

Essays, Second Series |Ralph Waldo Emerson

Major, Mr. Brown insists, is "the sole authority for the ascription to James of the vernacular poems."

Ephemera Critica |John Churton Collins

ascription

/ (əˈskrɪpʃən) /

the act of ascribing

a statement ascribing something to someone, esp praise to God

C16: from Latin ascrīptiō, from ascrībere to ascribe