Word of the Day: PUTATIVE

Reckoned or reputed

putative (adj) - commonly thought or supposed to be true [pyoo-tuh-tiv]

BREAKDOWN: PUT- (think or consider) + -ATIVE (inclined to)

See also: impute

"A certain action, repeated, becomes customary; as a result, it comes to define the actor’s essential nature... To be an aristocrat is largely to insist that, in the past, others have treated you as an aristocrat (since aristocrats don’t really do anything in particular: most spend their time simply existing in some sort of putatively superior state) and therefore should continue to do so." —David Graeber

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