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
To be more precise, let us consider an existential, instead of an attributive, judgment.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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 such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
Milton inserts the adverbial clause in the predicate, which is not unusual; he then adds an attributive clause, which is not usual in English, though common in Greek and Latin.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
