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Meanings of privative in English
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Usage of privative in English
1
Give six instances each of-attribute, abstract, singular, privative, equivocal and relative terms.
2
A privative term, on the other hand, restricts us within a definite sphere.
3
For there are many terms which, though positive in form, are privative in force.
4
Here also it is demonstrated how the privative nature of evil should be understood.
5
A positive and a privative term in the same matter will always be contraries, e.g.
6
Pocivalsek also said Slovenia plans to gradually privative all tourist accommodation infrastructure which should further improve tourism business.
7
Otherwise "unbegotten" may be taken in a kind of privative sense, but not as implying any imperfection.
8
To be without some faculty or to possess it is not the same as the corresponding 'privative' or 'positive'.
9
The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing, is the utmost of its reach.
10
Not corruptive, privative, or destructive to the power of classical presbyteries, or single congregations; but rather perfective and conservative thereunto.
11
Blindness is a 'privative', to be blind is to be in a state of privation, but is not a 'privative'.
12
A system fulfilling this condition and free from spherical aberration is called ''aplanatic'' (Greek a-, privative, plann, a wandering).
13
The chief value of the division, however, and especially of the distinction drawn between privative and negative terms, is in relation to attributives.
14
Wherefore others said that by Circumcision grace is conferred, as to the privative effects of sin, but not as to its positive effects.
15
Indeed, since the contradictory of a privative carries with it the privative limitation, a stone is strictly 'not-blind': that is, it is 'not-something-that-normally-having-sight-wants-it.'
16
Death, in the real world, is not a thing but a concept; indeed it is a 'privative', the absence of a thing -namely ,life