2. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive;
negative.
Privative blessings, blessings of immunity,
safeguard, liberty, and integrity. --Jer. Taylor.
3. (Gram.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative
force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles;
-- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. ?),
un-, non-, -less.
Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives.
--Bacon.
2. (Logic) A term indicating the absence of any quality which
might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also
{privative term}.
3. (Gram.) A privative prefix or suffix. See {Privative}, a.,
3.