attribute
/əˈtɹɪbˌjut/ verb B2- To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.
- To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. · This poem is attributed to Browning.
Plural attribute · He/she/it attributes · Past attributed · Past participle attributed · -ing form attributing
Verb forms
- Base form
- attribute
- He/she/it
- attributes
- Past
- attributed
- Past participle
- attributed
- -ing form
- attributing
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The keeper was so stupefied at this scene that he took Andrea by the hands and began examining his person, attributing the sudden submission of the inmates of the Lions’ Den to something more substantial than mere fascination.
Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family prejudice, to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits, as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
“Sire,” said Villefort, “the suddenness of this event must prove to your majesty that the issue is in the hands of Providence; what your majesty is pleased to attribute to me as profound perspicacity is simply owing to chance, and I have profited by that chance, like a good and devoted servant—that’s all.
Do not attribute to me more than I deserve, sire, that your majesty may never have occasion to recall the first opinion you have been pleased to form of me.” The minister of police thanked the young man by an eloquent look, and Villefort understood that he had succeeded in his design; that is to say, that without forfeiting the gratitude of the king, he had made a friend of one on whom, in case of necessity, he might rely.
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