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English Dictionary: Attribution by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
attribution
n
  1. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
    Synonym(s): attribution, ascription
  2. assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"
    Synonym(s): attribution, ascription
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Attribution \At`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. attributio: cf. F.
      attribution.]
      1. The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality,
            character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to
            a cause.
  
      2. That which is ascribed or attributed.
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