Attribute may refer to:
- In research, a characteristic of an object (person, thing, etc.) - see attribute (research)
- In philosophy, property (philosophy), an abstraction of a characteristic of an entity or substance
- In art, an object that identifies a figure, most commonly referring to objects held by saints (earlier, by pagan gods) - see emblem
- In linguistics, a syntax unit, either a word, phrase or clause, that modifies a noun
- A deity's aspect; see Apophatic theology
- Attribute grammar, in formal computer languages
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Famous quotes containing the word attribute:
“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Much attribute he hath, and much the reason
Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues,
Not virtuously of his own part beheld,
Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,
Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
Are like to rot untasted.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)