ascriptive
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ascriptive (not comparable)
- ascribing; relating to ascription
Translations[edit]
Noun[edit]
ascriptive (plural ascriptives)
- The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
- 2008, Charles Bray Williams, The Participle in the Book of Acts, page 11:
- Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.
- 2018, Jenefer Robinson, Music and Meaning, page 210:
- Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.