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as in: I attribute it to... Define
to credit (a source for something) -- such as:
- to say that something happened because of someone or something else (give credit or blame)
- to say that an idea or quotation came from a specified source
- On the other hand, the Right Honourable William Buffy, M.P., contends across the table with some one else that the shipwreck of the country—about which there is no doubt; it is only the manner of it that is in question—is attributable to Cuffy.
- She attributed this quotation to Shakespeare.
- She attributes her success to hard work.
- In respect of ideality, reverence, wonder, and other such phrenological attributes, it is no worse off than it used to be.
- "I beg you will have the goodness to attribute that to me, who have detained her, and to receive my excuses, sir," said I. "Oh, dear!" said he.
- Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
- to say that something happened because of someone or something else (give credit or blame)
- to say that an idea or quotation came from a specified source
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a characteristic (of something or someone)
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