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Webster 1913 Edition


Deprivation

Depˊri-va′tion

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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.

Definition 2024


deprivation

deprivation

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Noun

deprivation (countable and uncountable, plural deprivations)

  1. (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
  3. (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
  4. (followed by “of”) lack
    He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.

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