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deprivation |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.] 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. 2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss want bereavement. 3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deprivation n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want}] 2: the disadvantage that results from losing something "his loss of credibility led to his resignation" or "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: {loss}] 3: act of depriving [syn: {privation}]
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