meaning of privation
1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
4. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil
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