Sentence example with the word 'privative'

privative

Last update: October 18, 2015


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ACEPHALI (from a-, privative, and Kal)aXii, head), a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader; and in particular to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of the patriarch of Alexandria (Peter Mongus), and remained "without king or bishop" till they were reconciled by Mark I.   [Please select]

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To be without some faculty or to possess it is not the same as the corresponding 'privative' or 'positive'.   [Please select]

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Blindness is a 'privative', to be blind is to be in a state of privation, but is not a 'privative'.   [Please select]

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But then, the Stoics were not content with so simple a thing as mere negation, but had negative arnetic and privative, to say nothing of supernegative propositions.   [Please select]

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But still there might be assigned to them what Antipater expressed by the term 'a selective value' or what he expressed by its barbarous privative, 'a disselective disvalue'.   [Please select]

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