What is that of which the essence is the absence of something. Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. Bacon called?
privative — That of which the essence is the absence of something. Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. Bacon. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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