ascriptive
Adjective
ascribing; relating to ascription
Usage- not-comparable
Noun
The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
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Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.
Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.
Word forms
ascriptives