misascription
English edit
Etymology edit
mis- + ascription
Noun edit
misascription (usually uncountable, plural misascriptions)
- 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.