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probative value

noun/ˈprəʊbətɪv/

C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

The degree to which an item of evidence tends to prove a fact genuinely in issue.

The photographs were gruesome, but their probative value on cause of death outweighed the prejudice.

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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