Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who negates or denies.
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- noun One who, or that which,
negates . - noun grammar A word (or other structural element) which causes
negation (such as the wordnot in English).
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a good argument to include "ain't," really -- "am not" is the only case of "to be + negator" without a useful contraction in English.
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So reflexive is the role of the intellectual as negator, so free from accountability, that the very meaning of dissent has been obscured.
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A quick hand motion summoned his negator guard from behind him and set it toward slaying the elf.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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The planeswalker swung his staff around, slicing the blades into the creature's shoulder joint - the one that held the slender cannon to the negator.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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He paced the floor where a seeker had brought the latest negator corpses after their discovery on another plane.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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With a final spasm the negator fell still, its fluids leaking into the ground and staining the soil black.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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The negator began to twist violently now, feeling the invasion but unable to react as its own flesh and artifice turned against it.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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The Phyrexian master's entire hand slid into the negator, then his arm up to the elbow.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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Except for that strange new power, the negator had relied on physical assaults and an old system of burning fluid.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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Where Croag's artifice-blended flesh pierced the negator a new process began.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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