attributing

Meaning

of Attribute

Synonyms

Examples

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. Albert Einstein

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator. Jerry Coyne

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can. Robertson Davies

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. John Kenneth Galbraith

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer

I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error. Jane Austen