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How to use privative in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word privative? Here are some examples.

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The good is given many names, amongst them euthymia or cheerfulness, as well as privative terms, e.g. for the absence of fear.
Augustine developed two basic inceptions of evil, the privative and the aesthetic.
We could adopt, I suppose, a privative theory of goodness, according to which every good consists in the absence of some corresponding evil.
The privative clause boosts the validity of the decisions made by Refugee Tribunals and by decision-makers in my Department.
I do not think you can even grant such an order if the privative clause operates, can you?
I do not think you can even grant an order nisi if the privative clause operates, can you?
He suggested that a privative clause expands the jurisdiction of a decision-maker.
His Honour refers to section 474, your Honour, which was the privative clause.
The privative and benefactive suffixes should have vowels written with underdots.
It was in the context of a privative clause in relation to the ability of courts to issue prerogative writs.
I do not think that decision precludes a determination that S.44 of the Act in this case does not have a privative effect.
The passage might suggest, however, that privative time is just imaginary.
That is dependent on the validity of the privative provisions, is it not?
The Court treated this provision as a privative clause leading to the review standard of patent unreasonableness.
A privative access path of 1km carries out in front of this imposing noble den with, machicolation covered way and turn of guet.
Bill C-3 will eliminate the privative clause.
Gregory reacted by charging that both the theory of the privative cause and the notion of the positive cause of predestination in those who are predestined are Pelagian.
Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
Examples from Classical Literature
He contended that cold was probably only privative, and not a positive existence.
Here also it is demonstrated how the privative nature of evil should be understood.
The evil in matter is due to its negative or privative aspect as the formless, which makes it the cause of defect and evil.
It is a negative principle, and negative in the sense of privative.
Distinguish between positive, negative, and privative names.
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