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Privative   Listen
noun
Privative  n.  
1.
That of which the essence is the absence of something. "Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives."
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.






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"Privative" Quotes from Famous Books



... infinitely distant, u1 and u2 are to be replaced by pi and h2, the perpendicular heights of incidence; the "sine condition', then becomes sin u,1jh1 sin u'2/h2. A system fulfilling this condition and free from spherical aberration is called "aplanatic'' (Greek a-, privative, plann, a wandering). This word was first used by Robert Blair (d. 1828), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... class of names called privative. A privative name is equivalent in its signification to a positive and a negative name taken together; being the name of something which has once had a particular attribute, or for some other reason might have been expected to have it, but which has it not. Such is the word ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill



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