misascription
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mis- + ascription.
Noun
[edit]misascription (usually uncountable, plural misascriptions)
- The act or process of misascribing.
- Synonym: misattribution
- Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich.
- 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.
- Synonym: misattribution
- The idea that Tycho wrote it was a misascription.