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Hans Castorp was neither a genius nor an idiot, and if we refrain from applying the word "mediocre" to him, we do so for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with his intelligence and little or nothing to do with his prosaic personality, but rather out of deference to his fate, to which we are inclined to attribute a more general significance.†
Chpt 2.2

attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
It was the expression on Joachim's face when he had mentioned Marusya's physical attributes—that peculiar, woeful wrenching of Joachim's mouth and the blotchy pallor of his tanned cheeks.†
Chpt 3.9 *

attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
But they also enabled him to perceive, understand, and internalize the ever-intensifying accent on shock and indescribable adventure that people up here, both generally and individually, attributed to the matter.†
Chpt 5.5 *

attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
Hans Castorp recalled how Joachim's face had turned blotchy and pale the one and only time he had tried to tease him in an innocent, flatland sort of way, by bringing the conversation around to Marusya's physical attributes.†
Chpt 5.5

attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
But although in terms of expensive, sophisticated clothes, ugly Herr Naphta had one thing in common with the cousins, it was more than just his advanced years that allied him with his neighbor in contrast to the younger men; there was definitely something else, too, which might best be attributed to the matter of complexion—that is, one pair was either tanned or sunburnt, whereas the other two were pale.†
Chpt 6.2

attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
Such a perversion of justice could not be attributed to reason, because the real cause had been a belief in hell.†
Chpt 6.6
It did not distort his features or diminish him as a man, and its very incomprehensibility—and no one would have had the impudence to attribute it to the quantities of wine he had enjoyed—lent him something grand and majestic, so that they all deferred to him and did not attempt another bite of food.†
Chpt 7.3

attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
In his jargon, they were dealing with biopsychic projections of subconscious complexes into the objective world, processes whose source one should attribute to the medium, a person whose constitution was in a somnambulant state; one might speak of such events as objectified dreams to the extent that they demonstrated an ideoplastic capability in nature— the capacity of thoughts, under certain conditions, to assume substance and thus reveal themselves in ephemeral reality.†
Chpt 7.8
But the fact was—and Hans Castorp knew it only too well—that this deplorable phenomenon with which he was struggling was not merely of organic origin, was not attributable solely to the local air or the strain of adjusting to it, but was also the expression of an inner excitement and was bound up intimately with those same sights and tensions.†
Chpt 4.8

attributable = caused by, or said by

standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
The only thing that could possibly increase her standing in Hans Castorp's eyes was that she herself was from Konigsberg, a city not all that far from the Russian border, and so could manage a little broken Russian—very meager attributes indeed; all the same, Hans Castorp was prepared to regard them as some kind of extended personal connection to Frau Chauchat, "She doesn't wear a ring," he said.†
Chpt 4.8
"Silence, my good engineer!" he commanded with a severity attributable to his own nervous tension.†
Chpt 6.3

attributable = caused by, or said by

standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
It was based on a misperception, a failure of imagination, because the healthy person was attributing his own mode of experience to the sick person, making of him, so to speak, a healthy person who had to bear the torments of sickness—a totally erroneous idea.†
Chpt 6.6
Yes, his spirit, his zealous theory violated life itself, and whoever wanted to destroy passions wanted nothingness, pure nothingness—pure indeed, since "pure" was the only attribute that could still be attached to nothingness.†
Chpt 6.8
She is, moreover, a lady of the most charming attributes, and I am but a sick old man.†
Chpt 7.4

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(1) (attribute as in: It is an attribute of...)
a characteristic or feature (of something or someone)
(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
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