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

‘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

In the former case, we have a real attributive verb, in the latter a substantive verb, in which an attribute is considered as at rest, hence as an adjective.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Constructions of Adjectives.+—Adjectives that merely describe or limit are said to be attributive in construction.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.