Attributing

Examples

• His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mrs. Bulstrode said no more, attributing some dissatisfaction which she felt to her own want of spirituality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My dear child, don't add to it still more--at least to your conception of it--by attributing to her all sorts of susceptibilities of your own. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Was I right in attributing this sudden change of place to some threatened annoyance on the part of Count Fosco? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The idea of attributing great successes to genius has always been repudiated by Edison, as evidenced by his historic remark that Genius is 1 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Lydgate was too hasty in attributing insensibility to her; after her own fashion, she was sensitive enough, and took lasting impressions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Ronald