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

Bopp’s suggestion that the Sanscrit augment was originally a privative finds support in this analogy.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

This elevation of the privative into a contrary, or a contradictory, has been the bane of metaphysical reasoning.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

E: as prefix, is privative and means without.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel