meaning of deprivation
1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
3. the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
4. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil
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