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

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

In comprehensive phrase the "attributive Dat." expresses many indirect relations of an object to or for which an act is performed or a condition sustained.

From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James

This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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