privative
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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
Ex, Latin prefix; privative in place of "e" when next letter is a vowel.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
He contended that cold was probably only privative, and not a positive existence.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
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
Strictly speaking, desire, as a conscious fact, has in it always a negative aspect, a privative aspect,—we desire when we are incomplete, when we lack.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
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