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.
Priv"a*tive, n.