privative
Example Sentences
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But Dr Bhar, a cosmetic surgeon who runs a privative clinic in Harley Street London, disagrees with the ban.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2022
Wherefore others said that by Circumcision grace is conferred, as to the privative effects of sin, but not as to its positive effects.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Here also it is demonstrated how the privative nature of evil should be understood.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
It is French influence which has disguised it in such words as affray, amend, escape, escheat, essay, &c.—Ex- has a privative sense in ex-emperor, ex-mayor.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
He contended that cold was probably only privative, and not a positive existence.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
