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

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

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

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 evil in matter is due to its negative or privative aspect as the formless, which makes it the cause of defect and evil.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

The privative can help us nowhere and to nothing; the positive only can assist our reasoning.

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