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

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 Berdoe, Edward

These are the "Sif�t-i-Sab�tiah," or affirmative attributes, the privation of which would imply loss; there are also Sif�t-i-Salbiah, or privative attributes, such as—God has no form, is not limited by place, has no equal, &c.

From The Faith of Islam by Sell, Edward

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

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 Mill, John Stuart