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PRIVATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
Example:
deprivation of civil rights
Synonyms:
deprivation; privation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("privation" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privation"):
impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization (the act of making someone poor)
starvation; starving (the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state of extreme poverty
Synonyms:
deprivation; neediness; privation; want
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("privation" is a kind of...):
impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)
Context examples:
The wrong done him by the Transcontinental loomed colossal, for strong upon him were all the dreary months of vain yearning, of hunger and privation, and his present hunger awoke and gnawed at him, reminding him that he had eaten nothing since the day before, and little enough then.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Their general fare bore a very different character; and could he have suspected how many privations, besides that of exercise, she endured in her father's house, he would have wondered that her looks were not much more affected than he found them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You will take in the whole of the past, you will consider times, persons, and probabilities, and you will feel that they were not least your friends who were educating and preparing you for that mediocrity of condition which seemed to be your lot. Though their caution may prove eventually unnecessary, it was kindly meant; and of this you may be assured, that every advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and restrictions that may have been imposed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Used only to a large house himself, and without ever thinking how many advantages and accommodations were attached to its size, he could be no judge of the privations inevitably belonging to a small one.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her companionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little difficulties and privations.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
