privation

[ prahy-vey-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.

  2. an instance of this.

  1. the act of depriving.

  2. the state of being deprived.

Origin of privation

1
1350–1400; Middle English (from Middle French privacion ) from Latin prīvātiōn- (stem of prīvātiō ) “a taking away.” See private, -ion

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1. See hardship.

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British Dictionary definitions for privation

privation

/ (praɪˈveɪʃən) /


noun
  1. loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter

  2. hardship resulting from this

  1. the state of being deprived

  2. logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects

Origin of privation

1
C14: from Latin prīvātiō deprivation

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