Meanings
adjectiveascriptive (not comparable)
- not comparableascribing; relating to ascription
nounascriptive (plural ascriptives)
plural ascriptives
- The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.
2008, Charles Bray Williams, The Participle in the Book of Acts, page 111 more example
Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.
2018, Jenefer Robinson, Music and Meaning, page 210
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Translations
German askriptiv
- askriptivTranslations
Spanish adscripto, adscriptivo
- adscriptoTranslations
- adscriptivoTranslations
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