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Definition of Attributing
1. attribute [v] - See also: attribute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attributing
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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