Definition of Privation

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Privation

The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.

The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

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Privation Quotations

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
John Strachan

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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