privative
adjective
causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
privatively
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a word derived from
privative.
Example Sentences
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Secondly, there is the infinite as regards matter, which is taken privatively, i.e. inasmuch as it has not the form it ought naturally to have, and in this way we have infinite in quantity.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
