privative in a sentence

Examples

1. He was a staunch defender of the principle that sin had a privative rather than a positive nature ( A Justification of the Fathers and the Schoolmen ), and also published an academic treatise, Pothen zizania on the origin of heresy, written in Latin, with extensive Greek quotations.
2. Marking of core arguments ( S, A, O = non S / A focus ) is generally optional and is related to focus; marking of peripheral arguments on an NP ( i . e . locative, ablative, commitative-instrumental, benefactive, privative ) is usually mandatory.
3. Abstraction, functioning in this way, becomes a means of arrest far more than a means of advance in thought . . . . " The viciously privative employment of abstract characters and class names " is, I am persuaded, one of the great original sins of the rationalistic mind.
4. Difficulties arose because of the privative clause in s . 101 of the Act, which declared that every " award, direction, decision, declaration, or ruling of the Board . . . is final and shall not be questioned or reviewed in any court . " Nevertheless, the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick overturned the decision on reinterpreting the Act's provision.
5. Thus, a privative clause does not prevent the High Court from exercising judicial review if an authority has failed to exercise power in a " bona fide " manner, or if the action taken or decision made is irrelevant to the subject manner of the legislation or does not come within the power conferred on the authority . a clause will not be unconstitutional if it has the effect of altering the procedural or substantive law that the Court must apply
6. The lexical items are all basic, not technical or high register or obvious borrowings, so their behavior is likely to be a matter of inheritance from an earlier system rather than the result of some native pattern overlaid by a borrowed one . ( An example of such an overlay would be the non-alternating English privative prefix " un-" next to the privative prefix in borrowed Latinate forms, which alternates between " in-, im, ir-, il-" .)
7. The lexical items are all basic, not technical or high register or obvious borrowings, so their behavior is likely to be a matter of inheritance from an earlier system rather than the result of some native pattern overlaid by a borrowed one . ( An example of such an overlay would be the non-alternating English privative prefix " un-" next to the privative prefix in borrowed Latinate forms, which alternates between " in-, im, ir-, il-" .)
8. From then, the Marquisate had a fixed bureaucracy : The Governor and Privative Judge of the Estate ( " Gobernador y Juez Privativo " ), the Estate Controller ( " Contador " ), the Estate Lawyer ( " Abogado de C�mara " ), the Estate Solicitor ( " Procurador " ), the Estate Bailiff ( " Agente solicitador " ), the Estate Executioner ( " Ministro ejecutor " ), the Administrator of houses and ground rents and the Interpreter of the N�huatl.
9. The privative indicates  without,  the allative  to or  towards,  and the perlative  through or  along .  A noun can be made into an adjective using the proprietive, with signifies  having .  For example, " ratha ",  baby becomes " rathaway ", meaning  pregnant .  In a similar way, adding the privative morpheme suffix, transforms a noun into an adjective showing  without .  Finally, the  kinship proprietive is a noun suffix that is used to show familial relationships.
10. The privative indicates  without,  the allative  to or  towards,  and the perlative  through or  along .  A noun can be made into an adjective using the proprietive, with signifies  having .  For example, " ratha ",  baby becomes " rathaway ", meaning  pregnant .  In a similar way, adding the privative morpheme suffix, transforms a noun into an adjective showing  without .  Finally, the  kinship proprietive is a noun suffix that is used to show familial relationships.