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
Asoca, from a, privative, and soka, grief: a play of words, as when Helen, in Euripides, is called 'Ελενασ, the destroyer of ships.'
From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman
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 whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing, is the utmost of its reach.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
The meaning of the expression "Knowledge of God" is the ascertaining the truth of His existence, and of His positive and privative attributes, as far as the human understanding can enter into these matters.
From The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell
