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What does misattribute mean?

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Verb
  1. To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
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Frequently clinicians underestimate the importance of attachment needs and misattribute attachment behaviors in their diagnostic assessments.
She is traveling widely to determine which manufacturers in the northern states and France shipped to Louisiana customers, and trying to debunk legends that misattribute antiques made elsewhere to New Orleans artisans.
But when asked which captions were written by men and which by women, both sexes tended to misattribute the funny ones to male authors and the unfunny ones to female writers.
It suggests that under some circumstances people can misattribute the uplifting work that their brains have done to a fictitious external source.
Failing to do so could misattribute the specific effects of a given policy.
Others misattribute the severe casualties taken by the Queen's Rangers early in the battle to Ferguson's men.

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