Meaning of Deprivation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.
   countable
2. The act of deposing or divesting of some dignity; in particular the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
   countable, uncountable
3. The state of being deprived; lack.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Without doubt⟳, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate⟳ that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process⟳ due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.”

“A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed⟳ Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest.”

“He was suffering from deprivation of sleep⟳.”

“The deprivation of anything whose possession is consistent with the nature of the Being which wants it, is a defect. But ignorance is a deprivation of something which is consistent with the nature of intelligence: it is a deprivation of knowledge.”

“Outside the boundaries of the PTEs [Passenger Transport⟳ Executives], there was little mechanism to re-open routes, and despite a growing realisation that the lack of transport⟳ connectivity was a big contributor towards social deprivation and poor economic performance, there was little government policy recognition.”

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