probare

There's no such thing, and here's why: "prove" derives from Middle English "prouwe" which came by way of Old French (prover) from the Latin word "probare" which means "to test or prove worthy".

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The word probare once meant ` to probe or to test to determine the validity or strength of that being probed. '

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

Continuansque sermonem inceptum, nitebatur, per verba proverbii quod pro themate sumpserat, introducere et probare, ab initio omnes pares creatos

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Rursus imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit; ille probare partim, alia abnuere.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

* Ostendimus totum statum nostrum, et quibus modis probare possimus ita esse sicut ostendimus, ex fide scilicet et antiquitate divinarum litterarum: [1704] 1

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

Nondum aperti cum Arianis conjunctus, nec probare quae ipsi a Basilio proponebantur.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Confessionis, qui Principibus scripsit, se hanc Confessionem et legisse et probare.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

"Qui Acta Apostolorum non recipiunt, nec spiritus sancti esse possunt, qui necdum spiritum sanctum possunt agnoscere discentibus missum, sed nec ecclesiam se dicant defendere qui quando et quibus incunabulis institutum est hoc corpus probare non habent."

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Nec putamus, illis ullam a nobis hac re injuriam irrogari, cum omnes uno ore nolint sua scripta aequari canonicis, sed probare jubeant, quatenus vel consentiant cum illis, vel dissentiant, jubeantque consentientia recipere, recedere vero a dissentientibus.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Nam habent illa quaedam, quae minime probare possumus.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889