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
E: as prefix, is privative and means without.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
But then, the Stoics were not content with so simple a thing as mere negation, but had negative arnetic and privative, to say nothing of supernegative propositions.
From Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
The names called privative, therefore, connote two things; the absence of certain attributes, and the presence of others, from which the presence also of the former might naturally have been expected.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
The medicinal springs procured this place its ancient name of Aponon, derived from α, privative, and πονος, pain.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
