privation

• It's an approach that guarantees only long term privation and nearly inevitable failure. —  P2P Foundation
• The problem with nostalgia is that it expresses a desire for something that no longer exists in a way that forecloses consideration of why it no longer exists; the lack of whatever is missed is isolated and seen purely as a privation, rather than as part of a more complex whole that also includes production, perhaps even the production of a present equivalent to that for which we are nostalgic. —  Voyou Desoeuvre
• Far from home and in the face of every kind of privation, the Civil War soldier did his best to recreate the world he left behind him —  AmericanHeritage.com
• There is, however, another privation which is not simple, but retains something of the opposite habit; it consists in becoming corrupted rather than in being corrupted, like sickness which is a privation of the due commensuration of the humors, yet so that something remains of that commensuration, else the animal would cease to live: and the same applies to deformity and the like. —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
• For more than a month he remained lost in the miserable crowd of prisoners packed in the casemates of the citadel, with just enough food to keep body and soul together but otherwise allowed to die from wounds, privation, and disease at the rate of forty or so a day The position of the fortress being central, new parties, captured in the open in the course of a thorough pacification, were being sent in frequently. —  Tales Of Hearsay

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