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

Verbs that not only are relational but have descriptive power, such as sings, plays, runs, etc., are called attributive verbs.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

To be more precise, let us consider an existential, instead of an attributive, judgment.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

It was a map of that region of sky-scrapers which you seem to think not justly beyond the scope of attributive sublimity.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean