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单词 unattributed
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unattributedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnəˈtrɪbjʊtᵻd/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈatrᵻbjuːtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənəˈtrɪbjədəd/, /ˌənˈætrəˌbjudəd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, attribute v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + attribute v. + -ed suffix1. Compare later attributed adj.
1. Not attributed (in various senses); lacking attribution.In quot. 1782: lacking distinctive attributes.
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1782 T. Maude Viator App. p. x At his feet stand two winged male figures..unattributed and unadorned, holding up a scroll, on which the Philosopher meditates.
1822 Morning Post 10 Oct. The constitution of this great school has been already detailed..with a scope and justice which..have left nothing unattributed to the spirit and energy from which it has arisen.
1873 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 276 So far as any man can remember, no such unattributed or unclassified states of consciousness are experienced.
1974 M. A. Del Chiaro Etruscan Red-figured Vase-painting at Caere vii. 144 Future studies should clarify the connections between them and various red-figured wares of northern Etruria.., not to mention a number of specimens hitherto unattributed to specific centers.
2008 M. Schwartz War without End viii. 122 Even though the families could not be sure, we can..conclude that the United States was responsible for more than half the unattributed deaths.
2. spec. Esp. of a work of art, music, or literature: created by an unidentified or unknown person; anonymous. Also of a quotation: taken from an unspecified or unknown source.
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1884 Sat. Rev. 19 Jan. 82/2 The number of anonymous and unattributed pictures in this department of the present exhibition is so large as to have provoked an unusual amount of guessing.
1900 Glasgow Herald 21 Dec. 7/5 A violin by Guadagnini brought £141; a second, unattributed, £155.
1962 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 56 311/2 Where unattributed quotations occur in the text..they are as nearly verbatim as the author's power of immediate recall could make them.
1977 W. L. MacDonald in S. Kostof Architect 30 A surprising number of very well known Roman buildings, for example the Colosseum, the Pantheon, and the Baths of Caracalla, go unattributed.
1980 CoEvolution Q. Winter 75/2 In my notes I've found an unfortunately unattributed claim that circumcision may lead to things far worse than original sin.
2014 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Sept. r17 A Ronald Reagan speech, written by someone else, that included unattributed quotations from a poem that was itself plagiarized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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