All 11 Uses
attribute
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The House of the Spirits
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- She was able to attribute her present discomfort to Father Restrepo when he pointed at her to illustrate a point about the Pharisees, who had tried to legalize bastards and civil marriage, thereby dismembering the family, the fatherland, private property, and the Church, and putting women on an equal footing with men—this in open defiance of the law of God, which was most explicit on the issue.†
Chpt 1attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
- Clara's strangeness was simply an attribute of their youngest daughter, like Luis's limp or Rosa's beauty.†
Chpt 1 *attribute = characteristic (of something or someone)
- This they attributed to Clara.
Chpt 4 *attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- Thanks to a photograph that showed the three of them around a table with a misty, winged ectoplasm flying overhead, which some unbelievers attributed to a stain from the developer and others to a simple photographic trick, they were the only people who possessed irrefutable proof that souls can take on physical form.
Chpt 4
- But the Sanchez brothers dug him up from the cemetery and hauled the body out into full view, and then it was too much to attribute to the Indians.†
Chpt 5attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
- She regretted that the splendid women in her family had not bequeathed their attributes to her, that the only one who had, Rosa the Beautiful, had given her only the algae tones in her hair, which seemed more like a hairdresser's mistake than anything else.†
Chpt 11attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
- This he attributed to the fact that the people had become conscious of their needs and their own strength.
Chpt 11attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- He knew there was no reason for him to be impotent at his age, and was forced to attribute it to the kind of life he was leading and the bachelor ways he had developed.†
Chpt 12attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
- Meanwhile, her new husband fluttered among the diners attributing his mother-in-law's absence to a sudden attack of asthma and his bride's tears to the emotions of the occasion.†
Chpt 7
- When foreign investment capital began to flow into the country, they naturally attributed it to the stability of the new regime, ignoring the fact that for every peso that entered the country, two were lost to interest.†
Chpt 13
- Even her father noticed, attributing it to the peace of abundance.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(attribute as in: It is an attribute of...) a characteristic or feature (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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)