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

Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

This elevation of the privative into a contrary, or a contradictory, has been the bane of metaphysical reasoning.

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

In pure thought we must understand the dichotomic process to be the distinction of a positive by a privative, both logical elements of the same thought, as I have elsewhere shown.

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