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comparative more probative, superlative most probative
(law) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation. quotations examples
The judge had granted the DA a one-week extension with the caustic admonition that the case would be summarily dismissed if at that time probative, as opposed to prejudicial, evidence was not produced.
1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, page 109
My grandfather in person organized the file with a surfeit of sworn testimonies and probative documents […]
2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 2, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale