The action of attaching, affixing, or ascribing; bestowal (of a name, etc.).

The fame, credit, or reputation for (also as, of) (having or being) something.

The fame, credit, or notoriety of being, doing, or possessing something. With of, for, or as.

The action of ascribing, attributing, imputing, or declaring that something belongs to a person or thing; concrete the declaration thus made.

Assigning or crediting; ascription, attribution. Now rare.

Assignment. Obsolete. rare.

The action of ascribing as an attribute; attribution.

The assigning or ascribing of a character or quality as belonging or proper to any thing.

Attribution as belonging or due to.

The attribution of life and personality (and sometimes a soul) to inanimate objects and natural phenomena; = animatism, n.

The attribution of qualities of the soul or mind, such as personality and will, to inanimate objects. Cf. animism, n. 2.