misascription

Meaning

1. noun The act or process of misascribing.

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

2. noun 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.

Similar words

misattribution misimputation misdescription misquote misprision misidentification mislabeling misconstruction misquotation misrelation