Definition of Attributing

1. Verb. (present participle of attribute) ¹

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Definition of Attributing

1. attribute [v] - See also: attribute

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attributing

attrahents
attrap
attrapped
attraps
attrectation
attrib
attributable
attributable fraction
attributable risk
attribute
attributed
attributee
attributees
attributeness
attributes
attributing
attribution
attribution theory
attributional
attributional complexity
attributions
attributive
attributive adjective
attributive adjectives
attributive genitive
attributive noun
attributive nouns
attributively
attributiveness
attributives

Literary usage of Attributing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethics and Natural Law: A Reconstructive Review of Moral Philosophy Applied by George Lansing Raymond (1920)
"... our Review of Ethical Theories—The Attributing of Right Conduct to Thinking, ... upon Practical Results—Upon Philosophic Theory—The Attributing of Right ..."

2. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... when moft thou need'ft hef nigh, By attributing overmuch to things 565 Lefs excellent, ... attributing ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1847)
"... the implication of a similar power amounts to nothing more than attributing to the mind of the testator a sense of that necessity for the trustees' ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1835)
"With respect to the other point, I feel great difficulty in attributing to words a sense whicli they do not ordinarily bear, for the purpose of a particular ..."

5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"... tho we are not moved : for I always avoid attributing motion to any thing but body. The will is produced, generated, formed, and created in such sort as ..."

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