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
In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
Constructions of Adjectives.+—Adjectives that merely describe or limit are said to be attributive in construction.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
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
