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

Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself.

From The Guardian

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."

From Project Gutenberg