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 this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: 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

With the exception of the nominative, the various forms of the noun are all attributive; there is no difference, for example, between “doing a thing” and “doing badly.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)