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deprivation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. 3 (context countable English) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.] The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "removal from office or position," from Medieval Latin deprivationem (nominative deprivatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of deprivare (see deprive ).
Wikipedia
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ The greatest burdens of the war - destruction, disruption of life and economic deprivation - have fallen on the rural population. ▪ Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation , such as unemployment ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation , want ] the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: loss ] act of depriving someone of food or money or ...
Usage examples of deprivation.
Its larger significance, its greater meaning, Eccles takes to be this: suffering, deprivation, barrenness, hardship, lack are all an indispensable part of the education, the initiation, as it were, of any of those who would follow Jesus Christ.
Originally Emeraude was to have been there, and Oily had intended asking some amusing people to meet her, but Emeraude had absented herself suddenly from town, announcing that she needed meditation, and she was going to immerse herself in a sensory deprivation tank.
Deprivation of heterosex in my program leads to an accumulation of tension: disassociation reaction, abusiveness to attendants, flickers of bad French.
I inhaled them, at peace for the first time in many days, the pressures of heterosex deprivation removed.
Disneyland, Jeanine Hilt had an acute asthma attack, went into respiratory failure, and suffered oxygen deprivation so severe that she lost all brain function: in other words, she developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, exactly the same fate that had befallen Lia.
Steeley, we have all heard ACOAs and AlaTeens and ACONAs and ACOGs and WHINERS relate clear cases of different kinds of abuse: beatings, diddlings, rapes, deprivations, domineerment, humiliation, captivity, torture, excessive criticism or even just utter disinterest.
The new campus radical has a cause, a multipronged attack on as many fronts as necessary: if not civil rights, then foreign policy or structural deprivation in domestic poverty pockets.
They tried metapsychic deep-redact and deprivation conditioning and multiphase electroshock and narcotherapy and old-time religion.
By now his head was thick with the sluggish residue of stale ale, sleep deprivation, and overexcited nerves.
It had been worse than a deprivation to leave the coves of Crete with their sea caves and rainbow fish, the sun-drenched forests where woodpeckers chattered to Dryads, and come to the squalid town of Endor, which lay directly between Philistia and Israel and changed masters as often as the moon changed phases.
Those who were Puritanically affected refused obedience, and were punished by suspension or deprivation.
He knew that many of his Reman brethren had allowed imprisonment and deprivation to dull their senses, but he had worked hard to keep his sharp and honed.
Loading a rifle or smoothbore required fine motor skills, and most soldiers arrived at a battlefield exhausted after miles of marching, after too little food, and after much sleep deprivation.
In some ways, these were relatively mild, especially compared to the deprivations to follow.
Finally, with the exception of the desert areas of northwest Iraq, the conditions of central Iraq are not as harsh and debilitating as those of the Kuwaiti Theater, meaning that Iraqi military personnel would likely feel any deprivations less immediately or powerfully than was the case in 1991.