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privation |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Privation \Pri*va"tion\, n. [L. privatio: cf F. privation. See {Private}.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away hence the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. --Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something especially of something required or desired; destitution; need as to undergo severe privations. 3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and absent day --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: privation n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {want}, {deprivation}] 2: act of depriving [syn: {deprivation}]
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