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What does misattribution mean?

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Noun
  1. The act or process of misattributing.
  2. An incorrect attribution.
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But I hope that I may be allowed to point out a very grave misunderstanding and misattribution, and to protest the calumny with which the attack on me reaches its crescendo.
Erne spends most of the chapter going through each misattribution in medium-scale detail.
Anonymity adds to the risk that mistakes, misattribution and miscalculation will lead to military escalation with conventional weapons or cyberarms.
His students and disciples extensively edited his papers, often confusing them with works by other writers, in many cases leading to misattribution and confused transmission.
Dale then underlines Kojeve as the single most important source of the misattribution.
Presidential candidates, possessed of more abundant airtime, perhaps, than ideas with which to fill it, are the Dorothy Parkers of misquotation and misattribution.

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