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单词 privant
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privantn.adj.

Forms: 1500s–1600s priuant, 1600s 1800s privant.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin privant-, privans, prīvant-, prīvāns.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin privant-, privans depriver (c1332 in a British source), use as noun of classical Latin prīvant-, prīvāns, present participle of prīvāre prive v. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (prəi·vănt) /ˈpraɪvənt/.
Obsolete. rare.
A. n.
In traditional (esp. Ramist) logic: a statement in which a habit (habit n. 11) is denied by its privation (privation n. 1).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > negativity or negation > a negative thing
privant1586
negation1707
minus quantity1843
1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xii. 59 An absence of one quallity, is not..an inferring of the other: but only in priuants, wherof the one is a meere absence.
1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master i. xvii. 163 They are so called, because of the priuant that pulls the habit out of the house, as it were.
1632 R. Fage tr. P. Ramus Dialectica I. xvii. 27 Privants are contraries denying, of which one denieth in the same subiect onely, in which the affirmatiue (of its owne nature) is.
B. adj.
Of or relating to privation or a privant (see sense A.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > negative
wickeda1300
privativea1398
negative1565
sorrow1568
privant1629
minus1776
impositivec1856
1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master i. xiv. 148 Logicke makes onely two kindes of nothings, the contradicent..and the priuant.
1890 Cent. Dict. Privant, noting privative opposites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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