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What does privation mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
  2. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
  3. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
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The children of this class who are now in their early twenties remember little or nothing of Soviet privation and are active on the nightlife social scene.
And with each passing day the situation only gets worse with growing reports of privation outside Athens.
It points to a privation of being, to the absence of moral, spiritual being, in Panurge.
The Saints did continue to suffer much persecution, some did apostatize, others did die of exposure, disease and privation.
The difficulty of the lottery is that it might not consistently deceive phylakes who have had a long term of sexual privation.
Possible redemption comes in the form of Orlando, a magician determined to save Ewa from a live of privation.

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