negative
adjective
expressing or containing negation or denial.
negatived
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past participleof negative.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof negative.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
negativeadjectiveexpressing or containing negation or denial.
Example Sentences
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Referring to Erskine May, Parliament's ancient and respected rule book, he said MPs should never be asked to vote again on the same proposition if they had already "negatived" it during the current Parliamentary session.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2019
With gentle but resolute firmness, His Majesty negatived this proposal, hailed a passing motorist who, overwhelmed, obeyed with alacrity a royal command that he convey Miss Betts to her residence in Uxbridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
The outstretched arm, however, alas, was drawn in again, or lopped off, or otherwise paralysed and negatived, and I was left with my little project—intrinsically, I hasten to add, and most damnably difficult—on my hands....
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
It was negatived with contempt, and the delegates separated.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
