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

Mr. Max M�ller looks for the origin of the word in a, privative, and da, to bind; thus Aditi will mean "the boundless," the "infinite," a theory rejected by M. Regnaud.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

He contended that cold was probably only privative, and not a positive existence.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

The class of propositions referred to do more than this, inasmuch as they present alternative conceptions, mutually exhaustive, each the privative of the other.

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

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 Milman, Henry Hart