Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority.
His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends.
Defn: Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, theputative father of a child.
I received several invitations from the marine mess to dine with them; but I always contrived to be engaged, for I was fearful that something might be said relative to my putative father, Ben, which might hurt my pride.
If you do not like your present name, from its association with your putative father of low origin, change it to mine.
The putative father of the girl, that charitable man, had conceived no suspicions with regard to me; her behaviour and mine in public was marked with indifference, so well sustained that it suggested nothing to arouse a doubt about us.
We had much ado, all three of us, to curb the rage of the so-called putative father, who had now become an Orlando Furioso, and was bent on cutting the throat of his adopted daughter.
While I was opening my door, I spied the putativefather in his shirt with a light in one hand and a long naked scimitar clenched in the other, running like mad and rushing up the stairs to execute summary vengeance.
Naturally, he had little regret for his putative father.
A few good engravings, a shelf or two of classical works, and a cabinet of old china, would have done more for Boodles than all the wild romances of her putative grandfather.
Why such men should swell with pride when they become putative or actual parents is one of the wonders of the universe.
After two years at Oxford his putativefather died.
Later, attracted by the boy's beauty, and secretly proud of his putative share in it, he had sent him to a college in a south coast watering place and afterward to Oxford.
Essentially, therefore, the tribal law is putatively zoocratic; and the social organization may justly be classed as a putative zoocracy.
Now I know that some are troubled by the act that then the children of this secret marriage are not the rightful heirs of their putative father.
And there is no other explanation possible except one--that the man is not the son of his putative father.
Acting on the recommendation of the commissioners the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 endeavoured to discourage the principle of making the putative father contribute by introducing a somewhat cumbersome method of procedure.
Subsequently, legislation gave the parish the right of attaching, and in some cases suing for, money due from the putative father for the maintenance of the child.
The old bourgeois couple, Pietro and Violante Comparini, manage to wed their thirteen-year-old putative daughter to a middle-aged noble of Arezzo.
Laura's putative father, Orsino Orsini, was present at the ceremony.
The first of the pretenders, in order of time, was Jean Marie Hervagault, the putative son of a poor Normandy tailor.
He obtained an order for his putative father's disinterment, but that does not appear to have solved the mystery any more than did the fact that "in 1821 the dauphin became a speculator, and experienced its vicissitudes.
Notwithstanding the fact that the putative "grandson" of Louis the Sixteenth retained the services of Jules Favre as an advocate, he was unable to soften the iron hearts of the Parisian jury, and had to subside into oblivion.
When a bastard child, whose mother has not obtained an order, becomes chargeable to the parish, the guardians may proceed against the putative father for a contribution.
But these apparent exceptions are scarcely real exceptions, since such persons commonly fall back on theputative approbation of some supernatural witness of their deeds.
Correctly speaking, emancipation will cost you nothing; the moment you abolish slavery, that very moment will the putative value of the slave become actual value in the soil.
