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privative

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priv=a=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

privativea. [L. privativus: cf. F. privatif. See Private.].
  •  Causing privation; depriving.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.  [1913 Webster]
    "Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
privativen. 
  •  That of which the essence is the absence of something.  [1913 Webster]
    "Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

privative, adj.
1 consisting in or marked by the loss or removal or absence of some quality or attribute.
2 (of a term) denoting the privation or absence of a quality etc.
3 Gram. (of a particle etc.) expressing privation, as Gk a- = 'not'.

Derivative
privatively adv.
Etymology
F privatif -ive or L privativus (as PRIVATION)

ROGET THESAURUS

privative

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.


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