Definition of Deprivation

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Deprivation

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

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Deprivation Quotations

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
George J. Mitchell

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
John Prescott

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip Larkin

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
Thomas R. Kelly

Deprivation Translations

deprivation in French is rapine, privation, coulage
deprivation in German is Raub, Verlust
deprivation in Italian is perdita, rapina

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