Definitions for ascribes

ascribes as·cribe

Spelling: [uh-skrahyb]
IPA: /əˈskraɪb/

Ascribes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 371 anagrams from letters in ascribes (abceirss).

Definitions for ascribes

verb (used with object)

  1. to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute:
  2. to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic:

Origin of ascribes

1400-50; late Middle English Latin ascrībere, equivalent to a- a-5 + scrībere to scribe2; replacing Middle English ascri

Examples for ascribes

To the contrary, they ascribe to the belief that more guns on campus, in the hands of the right people, will make them safer.

That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.

Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.

Yet neither expressed any interest in the legend that so many people want to ascribe to the man.

I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.

Different boycotters will ascribe different meanings to the same act.

The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.

All they have to do is attribute or ascribe as much income as possible to foreign subsidiaries.

What drives the human impulse to ascribe divine meaning to tragic events?

To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.

Word Value for ascribes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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