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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

/ 辫谤补瑟藞惫别瑟蕛蓹苍 /

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. obsolete.
    logic the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of privation1

1350鈥1400; Middle English (from Middle French privacion ) from Latin 辫谤墨惫腻迟颈艒苍- (stem of 辫谤墨惫腻迟颈艒 ) 鈥渁 taking away.鈥 See private, -ion
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of privation1

C14: from Latin 辫谤墨惫腻迟颈艒 deprivation
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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鈥檛 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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Saunders and Gamble dig into the domestic privations of poverty 鈥 the lack of food and heat, the shame of wearing the same old clothes every day, the constant worry about what鈥檚 next.

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