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Attributively

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Adverb

1. attributively

in an attributive manner

Example Sentences:
'the genitive noun is used attributively'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Attributively

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adjective
1. 
relating to an attribute
2. grammar
(of an adjective or adjectival phrase) modifying a noun and constituting part of the same noun phrase, in English normally preceding the noun, as black in Fido is a black dog (as opposed to Fido is black)
Compare predicative
3. philosophy
relative to an understood domain, as small in that elephant is small
noun
4. 
an attributive adjective

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Attributively

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adjective
1. 
attributing
2. 
of or like an attribute
3.  Grammar
joined directly to (in English, generally preceding) the substantive that it modifies
said of an adjective
noun
4.  Grammar
an attributive adjective
“black” in “black cat” is an attributive

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Attributively

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n.
A word or word group, such as an adjective, that is placed adjacent to the noun it modifies without a linking verb; for example, pale in the pale girl.
adj.
1. Grammar Of, relating to, or being an attributive, as an adjective.
2. Of or having the nature of an attribution or attribute.

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