Definition of Privations. Meaning of Privations. Synonyms of Privations

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Definition of Privations

Privation
Privation Pri*va"tion, n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See Private.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. --Bacon. 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. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton.

Meaning of Privations from wikipedia

- Look up privation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In child psychology, privation is the absence or lack of basic necessities. Privation occurs when...
- else, known to be false, was also commonly held. Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing...
- became a de facto system of deadly camps during 1942–43, when wartime privation and hunger caused numerous deaths of inmates, including foreign citizens...
- is, privations of the good which we call health—are accidents. Just in the same way, what are called vices in the soul are nothing but privations of natural...
- reallocated to European Jewish immigrants; Consigning Oriental Jews to the privations of ma'aborot (transit camps) for longer periods." Segev 2007, pp. 155–157...
- for a brief period. At school, however, the children suffered abuse and privations, and when a typhoid epidemic swept the school, Maria and Elizabeth became...
- extravagant shopping in the United States, undertaken when Britain was enduring privations such as rationing and blackout. She referred to the local po****tion as...
- were 92,000 indirect deaths in Belgium (62,000 deaths due to wartime privations and 30,000 in the Spanish flu pandemic). John Horne estimated that 6,500...
- large percentage of Kazakhstan's po****tion. Because of the decades of privation, war and resettlement, by 1959 the Kazakhs had become a minority, making...
- some Red Cross humanitarian aid, but there was considerable hunger and privation during the occupation, particularly in the final months, when the po****tion...