English

Noun

misascription ‎(usually uncountable, plural misascriptions)

1. Incorrect ascription, or a particular 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.

   Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich.

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