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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