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FWIW, could be proscribed:
2007 September 1, William Brohaugh, Write Tight: Say Exactly What You Mean with Precision and Power, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 65:Avoid the syllable cysts. This is a matter of preventative medicine. Better yet, it's a matter of preventive medicine, since “preventative” contains a cyst, that extra “at” syllable. So it is with “combatative” instead of “combative.
1995 03, Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore, →ISBN:mischievous, not mischievious; empathic, not empathetic; combative, not combatative; accompanist, not accompanyist; regardless , not irregardless; grievous, not grievious; desalination, not desalinization; archetypal, not archetypical;
OTOH, here French combative is translated as English combatative:
2015 May 8, Aleš Erjavec, Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, Duke University Press, →ISBN: Mais la nouvelle culture s'affirme peutêtre plus combative, plus intrépide, ... (But perhaps the new culture is affirming itself in a more combatative, intrepid, and ruthless manner with respect
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