attributive

How to use attributive in a sentence

• In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l. 2.

  Milton's Comus | John Milton

• Rnams follows its noun as would any other attributive word—“man plural” (whether two or a million) like “man white.”

  Language | Edward Sapir

• Adjective clauses (relative, attributive) always follow, and most often directly, the noun they modify.

  Montessori Elementary Materials | Maria Montessori

• An attributive is a word that connotes an attribute or property, as hot, valorous, and is always grammatically an adjective.

  Logic, Inductive and Deductive | William Minto

• In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.

  The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt | Daniel G. Brinton