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Another word for privation

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Noun

  1. The condition of being extremely poor

    See also:

    rich

  2. The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have

    See also:

    rich

    give

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Another word for privation

Noun
  1. See also:

    poverty

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Ramseyer, his wife and infant son (the child died of privation shortly afterwards), and Mr J.

  • prisons were relapsing into their former horrid state of privation, filthiness, severity and neglect."

  • An illness brought on by toil and privation forced him to leave his work to others for nearly a year, but in August 1598 he returned to his field of labour, and in October of that year practically the whole country was Catholic again.

  • Regarding evil simply as privation, Eckhart does not make it the pivot of his thought, as was afterwards done by Boehme; but his notion of the Godhead as a dark and formless essence is a favourite thesis of theosophy.

  • They are capable of enduring great privation, and make excellent soldiers under British discipline, though there are but few in the Indian army.

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