ascription

IPA: ʌskrˈɪpʃʌn

The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work, or other thing to someone or something.
(sociology) The stratification of people according to inborn characteristics (such as race or sex) outside of their control.

Examples of "ascription" in Sentences

Much in that ascription is obviously maodish and oversimplified.
There is some kind of ascription unto ourselves in this matter; which is boasting.
It is a racist ascription of guilt to an entire collective of people based upon their ancestry.
The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance.
(Note: secular categories have been self-ascribed as well as this self-ascription is mandated by a US Census Bureau which has racialized a census from a inception.
Most damningly, this mode of (un) ethical (un) reasoning is responsible for all manner of inequity and iniquity, since the ascription of "essential" and "perverted" purposes to actions is often pseudo-rational at best.
Attaingnant's chronological priority and greater authority lend weight to his ascription, which is reinforced by the similarity of the work to other Magnificat settings by Divitis including his customary chordal emphasis of the word ‘divites’ in the ‘Esurientes’ verse.
Traditions of the Apostle’s sayings, historical and legendary, the established and those whose ascription is doubtful; and I have studied the exact sciences, geometry and philosophy and medicine and logic and rhetoric and composition; and I have learnt many things by rote and am passionately fond of poetry.