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English Dictionary: deprivation by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deprivation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deprivation
n
  1. a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want, deprivation, neediness]
  2. the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
    Synonym(s): loss, deprivation
  3. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
    Synonym(s): privation, deprivation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
      1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act
            of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
  
      2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want;
            bereavement.
  
      3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice,
            or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
  
      Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first
               takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes
               from the order.
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