Misascription Definition

noun

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.
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misascription
Plural:
misascriptions

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