Arrogate vs Ascribe - What's the difference?
arrogate | ascribe |
(lb) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
As verbs the difference between arrogate and ascribe
is that arrogate is (lb) to appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right while ascribe is to attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.arrogate
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Verb
(arrogat)Synonyms
* (to appropriate for oneself without right) commandeer, expropriate, usurpAntonyms
* abandon * abdicate * relinquish * renounceExternal links
* * * ----ascribe
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Verb
(ascrib)- One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
- It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.