Both Uses of
ascribe
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.†
p. 56.6 *ascribed = attributes or credits to
- A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.†
p. 83.5
Definition:
attribute or credit to