Synonyms:
privation, deprivation
Meaning: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
Synonyms:
privation, want, deprivation, neediness
Meaning: a state of extreme poverty
Usage examples
It is an immense privation for us.
Abraham Lincoln was born to poverty and privation, but he was never a pauper.
But this is not the case with light since darkness is merely a privation of light.
He immediately began to imagine aggravations and disasters, and above all to think of her peril as the direct menace for himself of personal privation.
I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret.
They were confident, cheerful, and self-helpful, faced privation with indifference, caring nothing for luxuries; and when other provisions failed them, they gathered wild fruit, trapped animals, and fished, with great dexterity and with any sort of next-to-hand rude appliances.
I accept, O my God!--be it a well merited punishment or a salutary trial,--this privation of light and sensible devotion, this coldness and distraction, which accompany me even into Thy presence when all the faculties of my soul should be absorbed and confounded in sentiments of adoration and of love.