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comparative more privative, superlative most privative
causing privation; depriving examples
consisting in the absence of something; negative quotations examples
Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
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(grammar) indicating the absence of something examples
plural privatives
something that causes privation or indicates an absence examples