ascriptiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

派生語

名詞

ascriptive (plural ascriptives)

1. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
   • 2008, Charles Bray Williams, The Participle in the Book of Acts, page 11:

     Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.

   • 2018, Jenefer Robinson, Music and Meaning, page 210:

     Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.