Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an attributive manner; specifically, in grammar, as attribute or attributive; in direct ascription of quality or circumstance without predication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an attributive manner.
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- adverb In an
attributive manner.
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- adverb in an attributive manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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"attributively," many other nouns are: think of bull rider, king crab, sperm bank.
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An added complication is that in some cases (e.g. Earls in Earls Court) the - s noun may be a plural noun used attributively, i.e. acting as an adjective and therefore in no need of an apostrophe.
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Newspaper headlines in particular like to use adjectives attributively, as it saves space.
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Newspaper headlines in particular like to use adjectives attributively, as it saves space.
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I wonder if the expression "Alcoholics Anonymous" falls into the plural adjectives category, the nouns used attributively category, or both!
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Aren't these examples of nouns being used attributively?
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So one factor is whether the compound is being used attributively before a noun or not.
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So one factor is whether the compound is being used attributively before a noun or not.
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For example, when speakers use a definite description in an utterance, they normally use it referentially (about a particular, known, intersubjectively recognisable) individual rather than attributively
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The noun can be used attributively to do the work of an adjective: Robert Southey in 1812 denounced “the venom and the virulence of the demagogue journalists.”
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