What is "bereft of"

Usage examples of "bereft of".

Dishonoured by its own cowardice, bereft of dignity, a mother no longer.

It was the doing of his subconscious mind-the blind despair work or cowardice of a brain that had been bereft of everything which had formerly given it meaning.

But the reborn Sha'ik had delved deep into the man's soul, and found it empty, bereft of faith, by some flaw of nature inclined to disavow all forms of certainty.

Did he survive the destruction of Tamhania, or is Erith bereft of royal leadership?

For, having walked upon the greensward of that land, having been caressed by its winds and breathed the storm's-breath, wild, and Springtime-blossom scent of it, they could not bear to dwell on in an Erith bereft of all access to the Land Beyond the Stars.

He had been bereft of everything which had enabled him to accept what he had done to his son, to his wife.

Most piteous of all states under heaven is that of a man alone, bereft of the gods of his home and his poll's.

He cowered there on his knees, abandoned, bereft of eyes and light and mind by the extremity of his dread, and his breath whimpered in his throat.

Reducing men to puppets, to something less than the lowest animals that walked the earth, bereft of the ability to reason or act independently, was a monstrous evil.

The new moon left the land bereft of much of its nighttime light &mdash.

It was an area more toward the mountain passes, bereft of grass, and so the unicorns had focused their energies, or charms, or whatever you would call it on that particular piece of land.

We need their visions, flawed and bereft of understanding as they sometimes are.

Kinson found himself wondering what it must have been like for her, bereft of family and friends, made outcast by her magic, left homeless by circumstance and choice alike.

Tears welled up inside him, tears for his mother, tears for hisfather, tears for himself, alone and bereft of their comfort and sup-port.

In any case, there she had been, bereft of Garth-Garth, whom she had believed stronger and quicker than anything!