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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.
3.
the act of depriving.
4.
the state of being deprived.
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Privation
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example Sentences
- Four years is not a long enough time in which to forget the misery and privation which that strike brought about.
- Overwhelmingly, though, what drives children into work is not greed but privation.
- There she lived for a time a life of the utmost privation.
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Word Origin & History
privation
mid-14c., "action of depriving," from O.Fr. privacion, from L. privationem (nom. privatio) "a taking away," from privatus, pp. of privare "deprive" (see private). Meaning "want of life's comforts or of some necessity" is attested from 1790.
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