Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascriptive
Literary usage of Ascriptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Participle in the Book of Acts by Charles Bray Williams (1909)
"Seven (77^ per cent,) of these are adverbial; 2 (22$ per cent,) are complementary,
while there is not an ascriptive participle in the letter. ..."
2. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"I do not risk much in taking for granted the existence of what I shall term
ascriptive emotion. Heterogeneous sympathy depends upon ascriptive emotion. ..."
3. Identity?: Theory, Politics, History by Simone Bekker, Rachel Prinsloo (1999)
"At the same time, in order to justify the focus on self-defined identity (as
opposed to a focus on ascriptive determinants of behaviour), we need not only ..."
4. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States by F. Gregory Gause (1994)
"Certain government offices become known for their restrictive hiring policies,
as ministers and directors build patronage networks based on ascriptive ties. ..."
5. South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices by Stephen P. Rule, Udesh Pillay, Benjamin Roberts (2007)
"This is especially the case in those societies where segmentation and cleavages
are based on ascriptive or nearly ascriptive characteristics such as race, ..."
6. Institutional Development in Divided Societies by Bertus De Villiers, Frank Delmartino, André Alen (1998)
"The ascriptive ties inherent in ethnic group identities create a strong sense of
... The ascriptive nature of ethnic ties and a consequent ethnic electoral ..."
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