All 7 Uses

attribute
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The Once and Future King
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He attributed to this weakness the fact that he could never get beyond the Future Simple of Utor.†
Book 1 *

attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights.†
Book 3
So we must imagine the Queen as a woman who had been robbed of her central attribute.†
Book 3 *

attribute = characteristic (of something or someone)
The present war might be attributed to Mordred, or to himself.†
Book 4

attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
Eventually he lived to be eighty-seven, and attributed his long life to smelling the turpentine in the pines.†
Book 1
Aristotle, you know, also attributes tragedy to imitation.†
Book 1
Suppose you try to tell me the song of any single bird which I can't attribute originally to imitation?†
Book 1

Definitions:

(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
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)