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privation

[prahy-vey-shuhn]

noun

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

    His life of privation began to affect his health.

    Synonyms: , , ,
  2. an instance of this.

  3. the act of depriving.

  4. the state of being deprived.



privation

/ ɪˈɪʃə /

noun

  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. obsoletelogic the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of privation1

1350–1400; Middle English (from Middle French privacion ) from Latin īپō- (stem of īپō ) “a taking away.” See private, -ion
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of privation1

C14: from Latin īپō deprivation
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And it could help a fledgling government to pay salaries, begin to rebuild, and address the growing discontent over the privations of daily life.

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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.

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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.

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Rather, it was because he came to realize he wasn’t empathetic enough to class differences and the privations of others.

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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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