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Webster 1913 Edition
Deprivation
Depˊri-va′tion
,Noun.
[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.
☞ Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deprivation
DEPRIVATION
, n.1.
The act of depriving; a taking away.2.
A state of being deprived; loss; want; bereavement by loss of friends or of goods.3.
In law, the act of divesting a bishop or other clergyman of his spiritual promotion or dignity; the taking away of a preferment; deposition. This is of two kinds; a beneficio, and ab officio. The former is the deprivation of a minister of his living or preferment; the latter, of his order, and otherwise called deposition or degradation.