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Definition of Privatives
1. privative [n] - See also: privative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Privatives
Literary usage of Privatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A grammar and analytical vocabulary of the words in the Greek Testament by Charles Henry Waller (1878)
"Simple privatives, formed from а- or av- and a root. 12. Compound adjectives
formed from preposition and noun. 13. Compound adjectives (preposition and ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1851)
"... precepts the negatives are included, the word ' negative' is to be understood
in the moral sense; that is, so as to include the privatives also. ..."
3. The Origin of Language and Nations: Hieroglyfically, Etymologically, and ...by Rowland Jones by Rowland Jones (1764)
"... whence the reft, with a variation of the privatives. ... are from the privatives
im, in and an, ..."
4. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1879)
"They are directly negative, and so far forth logical; but indirectly they are
real, that is, if they are themselves real bona fide privatives. ..."
5. The Religious Sentiment: Its Source and Aim; a Contribution to the Science by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1876)
"It has also been noted that all such words as incomprehensible, unconditioned,
infinite, unknowable, are in their nature privatives, they are not a thought ..."
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