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

In such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored. 

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

These compounds are usually nouns, or adjectives and participles used in a sense more appositive than attributive.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)

‘Let there not be a superfluous or unnecessary sound until we come.’ ‘waste’ is an attributive: see note, l.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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 Howells, William Dean