misascription
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
The act or process of misascribing.
Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich.
2
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.
The idea that Tycho wrote it was a misascription.
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