probative

How To Use probative In A Sentence

• In ordinary life it is rare indeed for people to form their beliefs by a process of logical deduction from facts ascertained by a rigorous search for all available evidence and a judicious assessment of its probative value.
• It is evidence directly probative of the fact that they were accomplices.
• Although confession has the unique and important probative value to prove the fact of law cases, it is obvious mistake to extort confession by torture.
• The judge must determine the probative value of the evidence by assessing its tendency to prove a fact in issue in the case including the credibility of witness.
• A more concise, equally accurate but less approbative way of putting this would be simply that he "smokes. The Recount Culture
• Though most of these meanings are admittedly not approbative, the first sense, ‘undiluted,’ may carry with it the suggestion of primal energy.
• If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
• Precisely because prison is an instrument of punishment in the retributivist view, and retributive punishment must be proportionate in some reprobative way to the degree of harm which the offender caused, a retributive sentence of imprisonment must not be excessive, must have definite limits. Prisons & Punishment
• If the first, then they cannot intend any but those moral powers who are said to be of God, in respect of his approbative and preceptive will. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
• If I were someone else, likely the first approbative thing I'd say is, ‘I really like his cooking.’