All 5 Uses of
attribute
in
Selected Essays
- [101] It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his many attributes†
Chpt 2.attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
- There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.†
Chpt 2. *
- Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms.†
Chpt 3.attribute = characteristic (of something or someone)
- Frivolous and fantastic additions have got associated with the name, but the steady interest of mankind in it must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.
Chpt 6. *attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.†
Chpt 1.
Definitions:
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(1)
(attribute as in: It is an attribute of...) a characteristic (of something or someone)
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(2)
(attribute as in: I attribute it to...) to credit (a source for something)in two typical senses:
- "I attribute it to her work." -- to say who or what made something happen
- "Remember to attribute any quotations in your paper." -- indicate the source of a quotation or idea