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putative

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Hess is the ballet's putative lead dancer. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a consequence it might have been present in the putative progenitors of mitochondria. ▪ He does not, as does, say, Jon Elster, challenge structuralism ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Putative \Pu"ta*tive\, a. [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure , and cf. Amputate , Compute , Dispute , Impute .] Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. ``His ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French putatif , from Late Latin putativus "supposed," from Latin putat- , past participle stem of putare "to judge, suppose, believe, suspect," originally "to clean, trim, prune" (see pave ). At first especially in putative marriage, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth" [syn: putative(a) , purported(a) , reputed(a) , supposed(a) ]

Usage examples of putative.

What followed was such a mish-mash of bafflegab that I was certain that Longchamps had no idea what the putative survey was about.

The putative newshound introduced herself and asked Poutrincourt who the heavy-browed kid was at the end of the top bleacher behind them, hunched over and gesturing and speaking into his empty fist.

I was told, incidentally, that the language of the Priest-Kings does possess more morphemes than English but I do not know if the report is truthful or not, for Priest-Kings tend to be somewhat touchy on the matter of any comparisons, particularly those to their disadvantage or putative disadvantage, with organisms of what they regard as the lower orders.

We may well wonder whether this new autonomy within the culture was the freedom Renan hoped his philological Orientalist science would bring or whether, so far as a critical historian of Orientalism is concerned, it set up a complex affiliation between Orientalism and its putative human subject matter that is based finally on power and not really on disinterested objectivity.

Nar crewman clinging with all five legs to the putative top of the polyhedral frame was swinging a length of free line with a grapnel hook attached to it around and around his splayed top.

Hodgepile, however, had Alicia Beardsley Brownthe two-year-old girl who legally owned the trading post, and who had been adopted by the Browns upon the death of her putative father.

The lowland Lao may have been richer, more numerous, and politically more powerful, but the Hmong, peering down at their putative masters like eagles looking at mice, always managed to maintain an unbudgeable sense of superiority.

That would leave the ball firmly in the court of Warminster, Mallard and the putative biker, or Alexandra Carlton.

They were no longer the guildsmen they had been since birth, unless they could find some brother guild brave or foolish enough to take in a putative traitor.

While neither astronomers studying galaxy formation nor human historians can manipulate their systems in controlled laboratory experiments, they both can take advantage of natural experiments, by comparing systems differing in the presence or absence (or in the strong or weak effect) of some putative causative factor.

Too, in an interesting concession to putative sexual difference, sexuality, by the Waniyanpi, is regarded as being demeaning to women.

FORRY RHO DAN replies: If there is any word in this world that wordsmith Ellison hates, loathes, detests & abominates, it is "sci-fi," so rash reader Graham, prepare to be dangled by your participle over a pit of split infinitives until your gerund becomes positively putative, when Horrible Harlan learns of your heinous employment of the egregious neologism.

The path to the General Lyll Military Acade my was not long, skirting the floating section of Riis and winding basically northward, through the Street of Many-Voiced Vegetables (called "the Voice" by the residents), passing close on the Blue Order Lodge, the old farmers' exchange, three temples to the Prophets, the historic Barak Nai House (home of the First Minister of two centuries past), and the Hall of the Legion of Prophets (where Barada Vai had been sent, in Winn's elaborate ruse, to get him away from the putative bombing that never oc curred), before at last crossing the Swiftswa spur that looped off the Shakiristi River and rejoined it after sliding over a waterfallwand leading to the Academy.

The path to the General Lyll Military Academy was not long, skirting the floating section of Riis and winding basically northward, through the Street of Many-Voiced Vegetables (called "the Voice" by the residents), passing close on the Blue Order Lodge, the old farmers' exchange, three temples to the Prophets, the historic Barak Nai House (home of the First Minister of two centuries past), and the Hall of the Legion of Prophets (where Barada Vai had been sent, in Winn's elaborate ruse, to get him away from the putative bombing that never occurred), before at last crossing the Swiftswa spur that looped off the Shakiristi River and rejoined it after sliding over a waterfallwand leading to the Academy.

Moreover, we have no access to any of those putative alternative universes.