Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act
of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
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2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want;
bereavement.
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3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice,
or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
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Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first
takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes
from the order.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
deprivation
n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want]
2: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his
loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him
is no great deprivation" [syn: loss]
3: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights;
"nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
[syn: privation]
WordNet (r) 2.0
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprivation":
abnegation, abridgment, absence, awayness, banishment,
bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary,
bereavement, blackballing, blank, cashiering, contradiction, cost,
curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination,
declinature, declining, deconsecration, defectiveness, deficiency,
deficit, defrocking, degradation, demotion, denial, denudation,
depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivement,
despoilment, destitution, destruction, dethronement, detriment,
disagreement, disallowance, disassembly, disbarment, disbarring,
disburdening, disburdenment, disclaimer, disclamation,
discrownment, disenthronement, disentitlement, disfellowship,
dismantlement, dismemberment, dismissal, disobedience,
displacement, displuming, dispossession, dissent, divestment,
drought, emptiness, empty purse, exclusion, excommunication, exile,
expatriation, expense, expulsion, extradition, famine, firing,
forced resignation, forfeit, forfeiture, fugitation,
grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, holding back,
homelessness, impeachment, imperfection, impoverishment,
incompleteness, indigence, injury, kicking upstairs, lack,
liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy,
moneylessness, nay, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness,
negation, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity,
neverness, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing,
noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance,
nonoccurrence, nonpresence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being,
nothingness, nowhereness, nullity, omission, ostracism,
ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow,
overthrowal, pauperism, pauperization, pensioning off, penury,
perdition, pinch, privation, purge, recantation, refusal,
rejection, relegation, relieving, removal, repudiation, retention,
retirement, robbery, ruin, rustication, sacrifice, shortage,
shortcoming, shortfall, spoliation, starvation, stripping,
subtraction, superannuation, suspension, taking away, thumbs-down,
total loss, transportation, turndown, unactuality, unchurching,
undoing, unfrocking, unreality, unseating, unwillingness, vacancy,
vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage, withholding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
DEPRIVATION, ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is
deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or
dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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