ADJECTIVE
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tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation
evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect
How To Use probatory In A Sentence
- Perhaps someday it will return to Victoria's inner harbour and enlighten the city with approbatory friendly fire in greedy pursuit of our oil, gas, and fresh water.
- Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The special wine stored in Odysseus's palace against his return is described in approbatory fashion as ‘aged’; and the wine that Nestor brings out in honor of Telemachos is, we are told, 11 years old.
- Stunning" was not one of my words, though of course I was approbatory. The Scandal of 'Ulysses'
- Mrs. Moore could speak — Very true, however, was all she said, with a motion of her head that expressed the bow-approbatory. Clarissa Harlowe
- On the other hand, the charta, subscribed by witnesses, could guarantee the legal validity of its contents and its probatory value.
- (Chorus of giggles and approbatory nods from the sympathizing audience of fifty.) The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- Or maybe German readers are just more polite about sending approbatory messages to favourite authors. :Acquired Taste
- In discussing the translation of his work, he was extremely approbatory.
- Some reviewers of my book took exception to the approbatory tone in which I described this popular religion.
