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
Subst. and adj. in attributive or predicative combinations.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
The interposition of the heterogeneous attributive between ἁγίοις and πιστοῖς is harsh and improbable—not to say, with Hofmann, “quite incredible.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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
