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Definition:1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need;3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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I know that this is a long voyage. I know that it will involve many privations and inconveniences.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Where it is to be diligently inquired into, whether the Cold it self, or the want of changing or ventilating the water, or the privation of Air, be the cause of the death of Fishes?
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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There was a certain animal form of refinement in his nature; and however pleasant a strange condition might be whilst privations were easily warded off, it was disadvantageously coarse when money was short.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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they would not suffer from the heat and the mosquitoes and the countless discomforts and privations of the town.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.256 (1970)
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