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privation

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pri·va·tion  (pr-vshn)
n.
1.
a. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.
b. The condition resulting from such lack.
2. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss.

[Middle English privacion, from Old French privation, from Latin prvti, prvtin-, from prvtus, past participle of prvre, to deprive; see private.]

privation [praɪˈveɪʃən]
n
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. (Philosophy / Logic) Logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
[from Latin prīvātiō deprivation]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.privationprivation - a state of extreme poverty          
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"
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.
Translations
privation [praɪˈveɪʃən] N
1. (= poverty) → miseria f, estrechez f
to live in privationvivir en la miseria
2. (= hardship, deprivation) → privación f
to suffer many privationspasar muchos apuros

privation [praɪˈveɪʃən] n (= hardship) → privations fpl
to endure privation → endurer des privations

privation
n
(= state)Armut f, → Not f; a life of privationein Leben in Armut or Not
(= hardship)Entbehrung f, → Einschränkung f; to suffer many privationsviele Entbehrungen erleiden; wartime privationsdie Entbehrungen plder Kriegszeit

privation [praɪˈveɪʃn] n
a. (state) → privazione f
b. (hardship) → privazioni fpl, stenti mpl

privation [praɪˈveɪʃn] n
a. (state) → privazione f
b. (hardship) → privazioni fpl, stenti mpl

privation
n privation [praiˈveiʃən]
poverty; hardship. armoede فَقْر، فاقَه، عَوَز лишение nedostatek, nouze fattigdom die Entbehrung στέρηση, κακουχία privación puudus, häda محرومیت؛ نیازمندی puute privation מַחסוֹר अभाव nyomor kemiskinan skortur privazione 欠乏 궁핍 nepriteklius, skurdas trūkums; grūtības kekurangan keperluan hidup ontbering fattigdom, mangel midler niedostatek privação lipsă; sărăcie лишение; нужда nedostatok pomanjkanje nemaština umbärande[], försakelse ความขาดแคลน ihtiyaç, sıkıntı 貧困,艱難 нестаток, злидн غربت، پريشاني tình trạng thiếu thốn


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We say that that is capable of some particular faculty or possession has suffered privation when the faculty or possession in question is in no way present in that in which, and at the time at which, it should naturally be present.
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.
In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the somber secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels.
 
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