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 last word should be reserved to designate more particularly the phenomena of objective or attributive conjugation common to idioms of the second form.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

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

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 Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah