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privant, n. and a. rare.|ˈpraɪvənt| [ad. L. prīvāntem, pres. pple. of prīvāre to deprive.] †a. n. A privative (quality). Obs. b. adj. Indicating a privative opposite.
1586Bright Melanch. xii. 57 An absence of one quality is not..an inferring of the other: but only in privants wherof the one is a meere absence. 1890Cent. Dict., Privant, noting privative opposites. |