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noun

Privation n.

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. "Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good." "Privation mere of light and absent day."

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"Privation" Quotes from Famous Books

... childhood. It was this: he himself—Marco, with the strong boy-body, the thick mat of black hair, and the patched clothes—was the magician. He held and waved his wand himself—and his wand was his own Thought. When special privation or anxiety beset them, it was their rule to say, "What will it be best to think about first?" which was Marco's reason for saying it to himself now as he stood in the darkness which ...

— The Lost Prince • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... order that they may impose upon their neighbours by their outward appearance, and, as children say, make-believe that they are richer than they really are, they dress beyond their means, and, at the cost of much privation of even the necessaries of life, make a display which they are not warranted in making. We have known those who have pinched themselves till they have brought on actual illness, or have laid the foundation of a fatal disease, ...

— Routledge's Manual of Etiquette • George Routledge

... said he, "she'd have shining wings and eyes that could look to the future as well as to the past, and immortal Hope for a lover. It would be worth all the toil and the privation." ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... among those seeking new countries. Here, having purchased one of the best tracts of land in the place, he commenced the slow and laborious process of clearing up a new farm. And this Herculean task, which may well be considered the work of a man's life, he had, after years of incessant toil and privation, nearly succeeded in accomplishing, and begun to catch glimpses of easier and brighter days; when he was taken away by disease, leaving his property to his wife and son, an only child, then drawing towards manhood. And nobly had that ...

— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

... all go. Many remained then, only to go later. The prospect of danger, hardship, privation, was the least of the deterrent forces that held them back. To go meant much in most cases. It was to give up cherished plans and ambitions; to abandon their studies and turn aside from the paths that had been marked ...

— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

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