Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Furnishing evidence or proof.
- adj. Serving to test, try, or prove.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to test or prove.
- Pertaining to proof or demonstration: as, the probative force of evidence.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving for trial or proof; probationary.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation
Examples
“On the final point, rules of evidence, the administration would essentially allow all evidence to be presented if it was what they call probative value or had some meaning to prove a case.”
“Gunslinging is dick-swinging - the dare-ya atmosphere we males know well, what I call probative masculinity.”
“What kinds of persons will emerge from a culture of impunity, a culture of gunfighting, a culture of the most extreme kind of probative masculinity?”
“Nevertheless, the procedures first issued by the Bush administration allowed the military to exclude the defendant from his own trial, permitted introduction of any "probative" evidence, including statements made under torture, and forbid appeal to an independent court, making the entire process an exercise of the president's discretion.”
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“The entertainment value of watching biblical creationists scrambling to unearth some kind of probative evidence to back up their naked opinions -- which, of course, is what a court trial requires -- is a lot higher than, say, mundane photos of Judith Miller being let out of prison or Karl Rove being hauled off to one.”
“I was attempting to deal with implications of Grünbaum's argument, without addressing the "probative" question or engaging in a critique of Nisbett and Wilson's paper or Grünbaum's interpretation of it.”
“All scientific theories, of course, determine to some extent how "probative" evidence is to be selected and interpreted.”
“You have a recently minted account and are trying to be "probative".”
“One kind of probative overkill objection is easily sent packing, namely, the sort of objection that is based on the confusion of potentiality with the mere logical possibility of transformation.”
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