misascription
Meanings
noun
- The act or process of misascribing.
- The result thereof: an incorrect ascription; for example, the ascription of a quality to someone or something which does not possess it, or the ascription of a quotation to someone who did not originate it.
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Etymology
From mis- + ascription.
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