DEPRIVATION
deprivation
Noun
- The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
- The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
- The taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
- lack
- He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.
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