Relating to, serving as, or having the nature of testimony or witness; capable of attesting.
From attest + -ive (adjective suffix). The root attestari means to bear witness, making attestive mean 'of or relating to bearing witness.'
In linguistics, 'attestive' evidence is the strongest kind—it means actual real-world examples from actual texts prove a word exists, rather than someone just guessing it might exist.
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