deprivation

plural deprivations

1. countableThe act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.

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   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.

   1989, Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas v. New Mexico

   1. countableuncountableThe 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.

      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.

      1913, “Pope Boniface VI”, in Catholic Encyclopedia

2. uncountableThe state of being deprived; lack.

   He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.

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   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.

   1875, James Frederick Ferrier, Institutes of Metaphysic, section 2, proposition 1

   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.

   2023 March 22, 'Industry Insider', “Restoring Your Railway”, in RAIL, number 979, page 68

   Synonyms: privation, loss, want, bereavement