martyr docile
innocent condanmé
its just the combination of the words, in the first and the second above, it seems strange to me and i thought there might be a descriptive term for them.
NOT A TEACHER
(1) I may have what you are looking for.
(a) If I do not, let me know. Then I can delete this post. I do not like to clutter
threads with wrong answers.
(2) Are you, by any chance, thinking of
postpositive adjectives? That is,
adjectives that come after ("post") the noun?
(a) For example:
heir
apparent (from Professor Quirk's famous book)
all things
English (from Dr. Quirk)
devil
incarnate (from Dr. Quirk)
X, for reasons
obscure, killed himself. (I forget the source)
He toted a notebook to church events
large and small. (I forget ....)
I can never love any human creature
breathing but yourself. (Charles Dickens)