to reattribute

Examples

• All

• Or were the contents of Gurley's box gone through and itemized two months later—in the process being reattributed to his successor?

  Academic text (1999)

• Anacreontic verse was "written out" of history after the majority of the odes formerly attributed to Anacreon were reattributed to later, inferior Greek writers.

  Academic text (2016)

• Bill Brown is close to the mark when he writes that Fried's work "depends on a logic of reattributing crisis from the site of the body to the scene of writing" (396);

  Academic text (2000)

• The historian had to reattribute several famous paintings after new evidence emerged linking them to another artist.

• Once the new documents were found, the researchers were able to reattribute the historical events to a different cause.

Synonyms

A

to attribute

vsto reattribute

203 3.8

To say that something comes from a person or thing

transfer that credited cause to another person or source

A

to ascribe

vsto reattribute

36 6.8

Think that something is caused by a person or thing

change that view and credit a different cause or person

A

to assign

vsto reattribute

28 3.2

Say that a person or cause made something

move that credit to a different person or source

I

to impute

vsto reattribute

• Formal

12 8.7

To blame a person or thing for something bad, often without proof

later move that blame to a different person or cause

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology