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
As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
He wondered how much of this constancy was natural, and how much merely attributive and traditional, and whether human happiness or misery were increased by it on the whole.
From A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories by William Dean Howells
Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
It is, therefore, from the point of an attributive equality that we are enabled to say: They are two.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
