FACTIVE

Etymology 1

Adjective

factive (not comparable)

(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.

(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

Noun

factive (plural factives)

(grammar) A factive verb.

Etymology 2

Adjective

factive (not comparable)

(obsolete) Making.

Source: Wiktionary


Fac"tive, a.

Definition: Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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