documentativeadj.
/dɒkjʊˈmɛntətɪv/ Of the nature of a documentary; employing or providing documentation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > [adjective]
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1971 Physics Bull. Dec. 738/1 Taken together they make interesting contrasts of styles in presentation. To adopt the laconic address of film reviews they are (1) pedagogic, (2) technical, (3) documentative, (4) dialectical.
1980 B.S.I. News Apr. 5/4 This work..is intended to assist terminologists, translators, [etc]..to elaborate documentative languages such as thesauri.
1984 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. ii. 14/1 This review, quoted in Hans M. Wingler's definitive documentative book, ‘The Bauhaus’, is descriptive of the ‘Metal Dance’ just presented under the sponsorship of The Kitchen and Goethe House.
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