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/ˈætrəbjˌut/ /ətrˈɪbjˌut/ Listen

noun

Attribute n.

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic. "But mercy is above this sceptered away;... It is an attribute to God himself."

Reputation. (Poetic)

(Paint. & Sculp.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

(Gram.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

verb

Attribute v. t. (past & past part. attributed; pres. part. attributing) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). "We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it." "The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer."

Synonyms: See Ascribe.

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"Attribute" Quotes from Famous Books

... the town and found never a speck of dust to drive before it. The very air had been washed and sweetened; and London's workers, scurrying to and from their hives, seemed also to have benefited by some attribute of the downpour that tinted cheeks, sparkled eyes, and, rejuvenating limbs, gave to them a new ...

— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

... not awake till rather late the next morning; and when I did, I felt considerable drowsiness, with a slight headache, which I was uncharitable enough to attribute to the mead which I had drank on the preceding day. After feeding my horse, and breakfasting, I proceeded on my wanderings. Nothing occurred worthy of relating till mid-day was considerably past, when I came to a pleasant valley, between two gentle hills. I had dismounted, in order ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... in contrast with the foregoing is found in persons of a more strenuous, perhaps more admirable but less agreeable character. The savour of acerbity may be a natural attribute of the critical character, and it is certainly not lessened where moral philosophy is the subject-matter of the criticism. The continual search after solutions of problems that may be insoluble at least makes the seekers excellent judges of wrong solutions. Like ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... more or less superstitious. Stories of spectre ships and mysterious beacons, that lure vessels out of their course and wreck them on unknown reefs, were among the stock legends of Rivermouth; and not a few people in the town were ready to attribute the firing of those guns to some supernatural agency. The Oldest Inhabitant remembered that when he was a boy a dim-looking sort of schooner hove to in the offing one foggy afternoon, fired off a single gun that didn't make any report, ...

— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... once I sink the private soldier, and address you in the character of the gentleman and your equal. I have a soul, Sir, notwithstanding my fallen fortunes, as keenly alive to honour as your own; and not even to save my wretched life, would I be guilty of the baseness you now attribute to me. You have asked," he pursued, in a more solemn tone, "what proof I have to show this individual to be the same who attempted the life of Captain de Haldimar. To Captain de Haldimar himself, should Providence have spared his days, I shall leave the melancholy task of bearing ...

— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson

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