Deprivation1. (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
3. (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
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