misascriptionn.
/ˌmɪsəˈskrɪpʃn/, U.S. /ˌmɪsəˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ False or incorrect ascription, misattribution; an instance of this.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [noun] > assignment of anything to its origin > false
misattribution1873
misascription1923
1923 E. K. Chambers Elizabethan Stage II. xii. 30 He light-heartedly accuses my friend Mr. Pollard, me, and others of perpetuating an old mis-ascription.
1946 Mod. Lang. Notes 61 61 The initial and continued misascription of the fourteen line poem, ‘The Muses, fairest light in no darke time’, to John Cleveland.
1971 A. Kirk-Greene in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 137 These lexical items [in West African English] consist of creation in two ways: deliberate coining and misascription.
1988 Renaissance Q. 41 37 We are not dealing here with forgeries in the full sense of the word, but rather with pseudepigrapha, misascriptions for which we cannot hold the true authors responsible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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