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privation
[prahy-vey-shuhn]
noun
lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life.
His life of privation began to affect his health.
Synonyms: , , ,an instance of this.
the act of depriving.
the state of being deprived.
privation
/ ɪˈɪʃə /
noun
loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
hardship resulting from this
the state of being deprived
obsoletelogic the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of privation1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of privation1
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Example Sentences
And it could help a fledgling government to pay salaries, begin to rebuild, and address the growing discontent over the privations of daily life.
Unable to deny the economic ruin Trump is inflicting on the nation, the Fox News spinsters have moved to reframing financial privation as a good thing, because it will supposedly restore Americans' lost masculinity.
A week earlier, Israelis were horrified and enraged by the frail, near-skeletal condition of three freed Israeli men, and by emerging testimony that hostages had suffered privation and torture under their militant captors.
Rather, it was because he came to realize he wasn’t empathetic enough to class differences and the privations of others.
One senior nurse - in a message heard by the BBC - speaks in an exhausted voice of relentless privations allegedly imposed by the Israelis besieging Jabalia.
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