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

With the exception of the nominative, the various forms of the noun are all attributive; there is no difference, for example, between “doing a thing” and “doing badly.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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.

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

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

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

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)