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De - Pt| English Dictionary: privative | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Privative \Priv"a*tive\, a. [L. privativus: cf. F. privatif. See {Private}.] 1. Causing privation; depriving. 2. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity. --Jer. Taylor. 3. (Gram.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. [?]), un-, non-, -less. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Privative \Priv"a*tive\, n. 1. That of which the essence is the absence of something. Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. --Bacon. 2. (Logic) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also {privative term}. 3. (Gram.) A privative prefix or suffix. See {Privative}, a., 3. | |
