negative
adjective
expressing or containing negation or denial.
had negatived
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past perfectof negative.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This did not displease her, for, though she had negatived his suggestion, her father's wishes coincided with her own.
From Alton of Somasco by Harold Bindloss
Though social law had negatived forever their opening paradise of the previous June, it was not without stoical pride that he accepted the present trying conjuncture.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
"Sphere," implies limitations; the Crusade had negatived them.
From Quisanté by Anthony Hope
The question that Ahmed Ben Hassan had negatived so scornfully a week before had been answered differently in the swift look that had crossed his face this evening.
From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
His devotion to her had forestalled every pain with its antidote of perfect love, had negatived every lack, had precluded every desire, had shut all avenues of entrance against self.
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
