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privative


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Privative  \Priv"a*tive\,  a.  [L.  privativus:  cf  F.  privatif  See 
  {Private}.] 
  1.  Causing  privation;  depriving. 
 
  2.  Consisting  in  the  absence  of  something  not  positive; 
  negative. 
 
  Privative  blessings,  blessings  of  immunity, 
  safeguard,  liberty,  and  integrity.  --Jer.  Taylor. 
 
  3.  (Gram.)  Implying  privation  or  negation;  giving  a  negative 
  force  to  a  word  as  alpha  privative;  privative  particles; 
  --  applied  to  such  prefixes  and  suffixes  as  a-  (Gr.  ?), 
  un-,  non-,  -less. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Privative  \Priv"a*tive\,  n. 
  1.  That  of  which  the  essence  is  the  absence  of  something 
 
  Blackness  and  darkness  are  indeed  but  privatives. 
  --Bacon. 
 
  2.  (Logic)  A  term  indicating  the  absence  of  any  quality  which 
  might  be  naturally  or  rationally  expected;  --  called  also 
  {privative  term}. 
 
  3.  (Gram.)  A  privative  prefix  or  suffix.  See  {Privative},  a., 
  3.