The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
ascription: (a) the degree of achievement and of technical proficiency in situ, as to society, whereby such societal ranking is more or less directly related to one's social origins or birth; (b) ascribe, attribute; (c) owing to, or coming from, an underlying authority, of one's livelihood and existence.
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