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   Privative
   A privative, named from Latin privare, "to deprive", is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages many privatives are prefixes; but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements. ==Privative prefixes== In English there are three prima...
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   Privative
   Priv'a·tive adjective [ Latin privativus : confer French privatif . See Private .] 1. Causing privation; depriving. 2. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. « Privative bles...
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   Privative
   Priv'a·tive noun 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 m...
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   Privative
   • (n.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3. • (n.) That of which the essence is the absence of something. • (a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. • (a.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha priv...
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   privative
   privative 1. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. 2. Indicating the absence or negation of some quality. 3. Consisting in, or characterized by, the taking away, loss, or lack of something.
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