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pri·va·tion

(prī-vā′shən)

a. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life: living in times of privation.

b. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss: endured the privations of war.

2. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute: the privation of liberty.

[Middle English privacion, from Old French privation, from Latin prīvātiō, prīvātiōn-, from prīvātus, past participle of prīvāre, to deprive; see private.]

privation

(praɪˈveɪʃən)

1. loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter

2. hardship resulting from this

3. the state of being deprived

4. (Logic) logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects

[C14: from Latin prīvātiō deprivation]

pri•va•tion

(praɪˈveɪ ʃən)

n.

1. lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life.

2. an instance of this.

3. the act of depriving.

4. the state of being deprived.

[1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French) < Medieval Latin prīvātiō deprivation (of office), Latin: removal (of a condition). See private, -tion]

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Noun	1.	privation - a state of extreme poverty deprivation, neediness, want impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
	2.	privation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" deprivation social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action pauperisation, pauperization, impoverishment - the act of making someone poor starving, starvation - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"

privation

noun (Formal) want, poverty, need, suffering, loss, lack, distress, misery, necessity, hardship, penury, destitution, neediness, indigence They endured years of privation during the war.

privation

noun

1. The condition of being extremely poor:

beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, want.

2. The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have:

deprival, deprivation, dispossession, divestiture, loss.

Translations

فَقْر، فاقَه، عَوَز

nedostateknouze

fattigdom

skortur

grūtībastrūkums

privation

[praɪˈveɪʃən] N

1. (= poverty) → miseria f, estrechez f
to live in privation → vivir en la miseria

2. (= hardship, deprivation) → privación f
to suffer many privations → pasar muchos apuros

privation

[praɪˈveɪʃ^ən] n (= hardship) → privations fpl
to endure privation → endurer des privations

privation

(= state) → Armut f, → Not f; a life of privation → ein Leben in Armut or Not

(= hardship) → Entbehrung f, → Einschränkung f; to suffer many privations → viele Entbehrungen erleiden; wartime privations → die Entbehrungen pl → der Kriegszeit

privation

[praɪˈveɪʃ/ən] n

a. (state) → privazione f

b. (hardship) → privazioni fpl, stenti mpl

privation

(praiˈveiʃən) noun

poverty; hardship.

privation

n. privación, necesidad.

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forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time

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It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.

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And even by the help of tradition the only thing that could be proven was that none of the five had seen daylight for thirty-five years: how much longer this privation has lasted was not guessable.

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This, however, is not considered a very great privation.

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Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.

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I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance.

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And Nancy's deepest wounds had all come from the perception that the absence of children from their hearth was dwelt on in her husband's mind as a privation to which he could not reconcile himself.

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heart, or a shilling for a pair of chromolithographic pictures or delft figures to place on his mantelboard, suffered greater privation for the sake of possessing a work of art than the great landlord or shareholder who paid a thousand pounds, which he was too rich to miss, for a portrait that, like Hogarth's Jack Sheppard, was only interesting to students of criminal physiognomy.

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Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island.

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Bold and daring enterprise, stubborn endurance of privation, unflinching intrepidity in facing danger, and inflexible adherence to conscientious principle, had steeled to energetic and unyielding hardihood the characters of the primitive settlers of all these colonies.

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To acquiesce in such a privation of their due importance in the political scale, would be not merely to be insensible to the love of power, but even to sacrifice the desire of equality.

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the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships, and torture, extending over a period of ten years.