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

In general perfection is positive, it is an absolute reality; defect is privative, it comes from limitation and tends towards new privations.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

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

But the absence of good, taken in a privative sense, is an evil; as, for instance, the privation of sight is called blindness.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Bopp’s suggestion that the Sanscrit augment was originally a privative finds support in this analogy.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison