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 Brooks, Stratton D.

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

This is, perhaps,338 not the least of attributive charms, though it should be a minor one where this wonderful and real Mount, which takes its name from legendary St. Michel, is concerned.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

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