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Definition of Privative
1. a. Causing privation; depriving.
2. n. That of which the essence is the absence of something.
Definition of Privative
1. Adjective. Causing privation. ¹
2. Adjective. In grammar indicating the absence of something. ¹
3. Noun. Something that causes privation or indicates an absence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Privative
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Privative
Literary usage of Privative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind by James Mill (1869)
"privative TERMS. privative terms are distinguished from other terms, by this;
that other terms are marks for objects, as present or existent; privative ..."
2. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"Every conception, we have seen, has a corresponding conception called a privative.
The positive conception has marks, but all we know of the privative is ..."
3. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"Has this a any connection with the alpha privative of the Indo-European tongues ?
I think not, though this would seem a more natural use of the alpha ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"Has this a any connection with the alpha privative of the Indo-European tongues ?
I think not, though this would seem a more natural use of the alpha ..."
5. Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society by Lester Frank Ward (1906)
"As regards this whole subject of privative ethics, all that can be said is that
when the ... The victims of privative ethics are in the immense majority. ..."
6. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"A privative Term implies the absence of an attribute in a subject capable uf ...
Under this head may be included privative Terms, which are often defined as ..."
7. A New Logic by Charles Arthur Mercier (1912)
"The privative Negative.—When the attachment of a negative to a term results in
the emptying of the term of all its contents, without replacing them by other ..."
8. A New Logic by Charles Arthur Mercier (1912)
"The privative Negative.—When the attachment of a negative to a term results in
the emptying of the term of all its contents, without replacing them by other ..."
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