Definition of "putatively" [putatively]

• According to belief. (adverb)

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• "The reason a felon isn’t permitted to possess a gun, putatively, is that such a person is of bad character and giving a person of bad character a gun is dangerous to society."
• "Hence, for example, we’ve seen wages stagnate even in putatively tight labor markets when you’d expect wages to increase due to increased demand/decreased supply for labor."
• "Others go further and say that only contents that could naturally be expressed using a demonstrative expression putatively referring to the seen object will be adequate to this phenomenology."