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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Deprivation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Deprivation.

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  • noun The condition of being deprived

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Examples

  • Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cockfighting, bullfighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence.

    Are Rodeos as Cruel as They Say? 2009

  • I might as well had a bed full of babies what with the sleep deprival I went through with those cats.

    This is Not a Cat Blog « XUP 2008

  • How else to assess the damage done by the unilateral invasion of Iraq, the deprival of due process for more than 600 people imprisoned at Guantanamo, the closing down of an Iraqi newspaper, the appalling mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners?

    NCC Statement on Devolution of the Iraq Crisis 2004

  • How else to assess the damage done by the unilateral invasion of Iraq, the deprival of due process for more than 600 people imprisoned at Guantanamo, the closing down of an Iraqi newspaper, the appalling mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners?

    NCC Statement on Devolution of the Iraq Crisis 2004

  • That would keep Wilbur accountable and provide some incentives to improve without sentencing him to long-term success deprival.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • That would keep Wilbur accountable and provide some incentives to improve without sentencing him to long-term success deprival.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • When I learned of the geas against his siring a child by me, I mourned more for the lack of the child than for my Lord's deprival.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Leibniz, a sensed deprival of perfection grounded in awareness of a discrepancy between any part and the whole.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

  • This deprival of senses, including all electronics and substitution of false signals or data to create this feeling of impotence, is another variant.

    Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance James P. Wade

  • It was these, as boldly and defiantly expressed, which excited the fears and jealousy of Charles the Second, and instigated the deprival of the colonial charters.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

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