attributive
Example Sentences
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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 other words, let the bodies be regarded as attributive and the forces as substantive.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."
From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Verbs that not only are relational but have descriptive power, such as sings, plays, runs, etc., are called attributive verbs.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
