Definition of Privation. Meaning of Privation. Synonyms of Privation

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Definition of Privation

Privation
Privation Pri*va"tion, n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See Private.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. --Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. 3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton.

Meaning of Privation from wikipedia

- Look up privation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Privation is the absence or lack of basic necessities. In child psychology, privation occurs when...
- The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike...
- else, known to be false, was also commonly held. Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing...
- became a de facto system of deadly camps during 1942–43, when wartime privation and hunger caused numerous deaths of inmates, including foreign citizens...
- "deny evil" is called the "privation theory of evil", so named because it described evil as a form of "lack, loss or privation". One of the earliest proponents...
- "Sedeprivationism" is composed of "sede" ("see" in Latin) and "privationism" (Latin "privatio", meaning "privation", and the suffix "ism"). American sedeprivationist...
- even before the outbreak of the war due to disillusionment and economic privation. The British High Commissioner for Palestine spoke of the "collapsing...
- reallocated to European Jewish immigrants; Consigning Oriental Jews to the privations of ma'aborot (transit camps) for longer periods." Segev 2007, pp. 155–157...
- large percentage of Kazakhstan's po****tion. Because of the decades of privation, war and resettlement, by 1959 the Kazakhs had become a minority, making...
- The Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park (Urdu: قائدِ اعظم سولر پارک) is a photovoltaic power station in Bahawalpur, Punjab, ****stan, named in honor of Quaid-e-Azam...