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Putative   /pjˈutətɪv/   Listen
Putative

adjective
1.
Purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds.  "The putative author of the book"





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"Putative" Quotes from Famous Books



... is not clear whether all members of a family which traced descent, real or putative, from a trade-father, actually carried on that trade. If so, we should have examples of a workmen's guild. Certainly many men who carried on a trade were "sons" of the trade-father, but apparently not all. The Code notes the adoption of a child by an artisan who ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns


Words linked to "Putative" :   acknowledged


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