accredit vs attribute

accredit

verb
  • To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. 

  • To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance. 

  • To enter on the credit side of an account book. 

  • To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. 

  • To credit. 

  • To ascribe; attribute; credit with. 

  • To believe; to put trust in. 

  • To recognize as outstanding. 

attribute

verb
  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. 

  • To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 

noun
  • That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

  • An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention. 

  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

How often have the words accredit and attribute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )