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

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

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 Huggard, E.M.

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

The privative nature of evil, as it is called, is purely a figment of the brain; it is an invention of the schoolmen, which has no corresponding reality in nature.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor