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

The interposition of the heterogeneous attributive between ἁγίοις and πιστοῖς is harsh and improbable—not to say, with Hofmann, “quite incredible.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

We will notice the attributive features of these witnesses as they are related by John in this chapter—that is, Rev. xi.

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

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

The particle ga may be used to make any expression whatever attributive.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood