ascriptive

The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.

Adjective

  1. ascribing; relating to ascription

Derived

ascriptively

Noun

  1. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
    • Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common. - 2008, Charles Bray Williams, The Participle in the Book of Acts, page...
    • Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse. - 2018, Jenefer Robinson, Music and Meaning, page 210:

Forms

ascriptives