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constative

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con·sta·tive  (kn-sttv, knst-)
adj.
Relating to or being an utterance that asserts or states something that can be judged as true or false, such as The cat is on the mat.
n.
A constative utterance, such as an assertion.
[New Latin cnstatvus (translation of German konstatierend), from Latin cnstre, to stand firm, be fixed (influenced by third person sg. present tense cnstat, it is manifest, it is a fact, and statvus, stationary); see constant.]
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