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John Adams, by McCullough
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- The first edition, attributed to an unnamed "Englishman" and published by Robert Bell in a print shop on Third Street, appeared January 9, 1776.
Subsection 1.2.2 *attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- But the stories endured because they were in character, like the remark attributed to Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island.
Subsection 1.3.1
- With his phenomenal capacity for work—an attribute not lost on the industrious Dutch—he produced materials of every kind in an all-out effort to "undeceive" them, while at the same time providing Congress with some of the most astute political reporting of his diplomatic career.†
Subsection 2.5.2attribute = characteristic (of something or someone)
- That the Adamses were able to make ends meet as they did, Jefferson attributed to what he regarded as an extremely "plain" style of life, and even more to Abigail's management of expenses.
Subsection 2.6.3attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- Adams believed his strongest attributes were, as he said, "candor, probity, and decision," but these he failed to find in the face that looked back from the finished canvas, and he expressed disappointment.†
Subsection 2.7.1 *attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
- Much of this he and Abigail attributed to "venom" spread by American Loyalists in London.
Subsection 2.7.1attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- His visit, Adams suggested, could be attributed to his desire to see England and pay his respects at Court.
Subsection 2.7.2
- Any such attributes were "contraband language" in America.†
Subsection 3.8.2attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
- When the printer published a first American edition, Jefferson's endorsement appeared prominently on the title page and was attributed to the Secretary of State.
Subsection 3.8.3attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- Dabbling in medical theory, Adams suggested that all Hamilton's overheated ambitions and impulses might be attributed to "a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off!" and that "the same vapors produced his lies and slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his life in the field of honor."
Subsection 3.11.3
- An overweening ambition was the flaw Adams so often attributed to others, that he warned his sons against, and that privately he recognized in himself.
Subsection 3.11.3
- When Massachusetts Federalists denounced John Quincy as no longer one of the party, Adams wrote to him to say he wished they would denounce him the same way, for he had long since "abdicated and disclaimed the name and character and attributes of that sect, as it now appears."†
Subsection 3.11.3attributes = characteristics (of something or someone)
- Adams not only never complained, but attributed his own and the overall good health of the others to the daily fare—beef, mutton, Indian pudding, salt fish on Saturday—and an ever abundant supply of hard cider.†
Subsection 1.1.2
- She, too, was an avid reader and attributed her "taste for letters" to Richard Cranch, who, she later wrote, "taught me to love the poets and put into my hands, Milton, Pope, and Thompson, and Shakespeare."†
Subsection 1.1.2
- If not, to what is it to be attributed?†
Subsection 2.5.2
- Later, Adams would attribute such "scrawls" to "gloomy times and desperate circumstances."†
Subsection 3.8.2
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)