Definition of "misascription" in английский

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.