probative
- serving or designed for testing or trial.
- affording proof or evidence.
Origin of probative
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Contemporary Examples of probative
Can we eagerly look forward to academic investigation of vampires or probative studies of alien abductions?
Historical Examples of probative
Ap′probatory, Ap′probative, of or belonging to one who approves.
Let a sufficient amount of probative evidence be addressed to the eye, the act of believing must follow.
The Gospel of St. JohnFrederick Denison Maurice
The second clause, relating to instances in which the phenomenon is absent, depends for its probative force upon Prop.
LogicCarveth Read
Certainly, there seems to be some illusion in the common belief in the probative force of prediction.
LogicCarveth Read
But Quintilian has less faith in the probative value of fictitious examples than he has in those drawn from authentic history.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the RenaissanceDonald Lemen Clark
probative
probatory (ˈprəʊbətərɪ, -trɪ)
- serving to test or designed for testing
- providing proof or evidence
Word Origin for probative
Word Origin and History for probative
mid-15c., from Latin probativus "belonging to proof," from probat-, past participle stem of probare (see prove).