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authorship Definition

au·thor·ship (-s̸hip′)

noun

  1. the profession or occupation of a writer
  2. the origin (of a book, etc.) with reference to its author a story of unknown authorship
  3. the source (of an idea, deed, etc.) with reference to its originator

authorship Synonyms

authorship

n.

authorship Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • Pentateuch: According to the Documentary hypothesis, the Biblical claims for the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch are false.
  • book: An immense amount of research has gone into the authorship of the book to provide its rugged realism.
  • text: Week 6 Determining the authorship of a literary text.
  • letter: Hill was reprimanded by the Conference of 1825 for being involved in a legal case involving his alleged authorship of certain libelous letters.
  • article: Continue to support students to publication for example, joint authorship of articles arising from dissertation studies.

Converse of object

  • deny: The Jewish Talmud asserts that whoever denied Mosaic authorship would be excluded from Paradise.
  • acknowledge: This might explain why Disraeli never did acknowledge authorship of the book.
  • imply: Another Edinburgh novel for which James Hogg strongly implies female authorship.
  • attribute: In the second century the bias was very strongly in the direction of attributing Apostolic authorship to documents accepted into the Canon.
  • indicate: Notes: Details above replicate Corvey 2nd edn, where ' Advertisement ' indicates female authorship.
  • claim: Colman, having departed to Covent Garden, for some years claimed the sole authorship of the play.

Adjective modifier

  • Mosaic: The Jewish Talmud asserts that whoever denied Mosaic authorship would be excluded from Paradise.
  • Lucan: But it is not only on the merits of the argument that I personally accept the Lucan authorship of the Gospel and Acts.
  • apostolic: And for Matthew's Gospel the claim of apostolic authorship was made.
  • disputed: There are passages ( of disputed authorship, as we have seen ) that suggest the possibility of repentance and restoration.
  • divine: The divine authorship of the Bible does not alter our procedure at all.
  • joint: Where there is joint authorship, copyright expiry is based on the last author to die.

Modifies a noun

  • attribution: Most of the work carried out to date has focused on questions of authorship attribution.
  • analysis: Through a worked example this paper examines methodological issues which hinder the possibility of quantifying results in forensic authorship analysis work.
  • credit: Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to the article itself.