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
Constructions of Adjectives.+—Adjectives that merely describe or limit are said to be attributive in construction.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
The particle ga may be used to make any expression whatever attributive.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
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 Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
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
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