All 5 Uses of
attribute
in
Selected Essays
- 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. (definition 2)
- [101] It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his many attributes.†
Chpt 2. (definition 1) *
- There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.†
Chpt 2. (definition 1)
- 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. (definition 1)
- 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. (definition 2) *attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
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