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
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
Here also it is demonstrated how the privative nature of evil should be understood.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
Otherwise "unbegotten" may be taken in a kind of privative sense, but not as implying any imperfection.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
