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Meaning Of Privative
a.
Causing privation; depriving.
a.
Consisting in the absence of something; not positive;
negative.
a.
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.
n.
That of which the essence is the absence of something.
n.
A term indicating the absence of any quality which might
be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
n.
A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.