attributive

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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013

Various uses of the noun as an adjective, that is, in some qualifying or attributive sense are when the noun conveys the sense of: 1.

From Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

This last word should be reserved to designate more particularly the phenomena of objective or attributive conjugation common to idioms of the second form.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

We will notice the attributive features of these witnesses as they are related by John in this chapter—that is, Rev. xi.

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)