Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deprivation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
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. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice,
or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first
takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes
from the order.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deprivation
n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want}]
2: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his
loss of credibility led to his resignation" or "losing him
is no great deprivation" [syn: {loss}]
3: act of depriving [syn: {privation}]
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