Definitions for: Deprivation


[n] act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
[n] the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
[n] a state of extreme poverty



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: loss, privation, privation, want

See Also: disadvantage, impoverishment, impoverishment, pauperisation, pauperization, poorness, poverty, social control, starvation, starving

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