factive

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
2. adjective Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
3. noun A factive verb.
4. adjective Making; creative.
5. noun A fictive taking its source from a physical person rather than a fictional work.

Similar words

stative factful ventive licensable dynamic eventive vocable realis grammaticalizable formalizable

Often followed by

verbs predicates and complements verb predicate clauses presupposition or