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Definition of Factive
1. a. Making; having power to make.
Definition of Factive
1. Adjective. (linguistics of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true. ¹
2. Adjective. (epistemology of a knowing agent) which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Factive
1. in linguistics, making [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Factive
Literary usage of Factive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1896)
"The singular has three (so-called) of the Heb. ; which either have a factive,
reciprocal, passive, and desiderative force, or else modify ti" ground-meaning ..."