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Privative   Listen
adjective
Privative  adj.  
1.
Causing privation; depriving.
2.
Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. "Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity."
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-, un-, non-, -less.






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... to a threefold division of terms into Positive, Privative and Negative. It is based upon an implied two-fold division into positive and non-positive, the latter member being subdivided into Privative ...
— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock



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