deprivation
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deprivation
- /ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
noun deprivations
- The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving. Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned
- The act of deposing or divesting of some dignity; in particular the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest.
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The state of being deprived; lack.
He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.
Similar: privation, loss, want, bereavement
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Closest in meaning: loss, privation, want, disenfranchisement, disqualification, deprive, exclusion, dispossession, destitution, interdiction, revocation, prohibition, deny, alienation, removal, termination
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noun act of depriving
| Español | privación |
|---|---|
| Português | privação |
| Deutsch | Entziehen, Entziehung, Entzug, Aberkennen, Aberkennung |
| Русский | лише́ние lišénije |
noun state of being deprived
| Français | privation |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Mangel, Not, Entbehrung, Verlust |
| Italiano | privazione |
| Русский | лише́ние lišénije |
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