Definition of Deprivation

Deprivation

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

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Deprivation Quotations

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
Michelle Obama

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
Rooney Mara

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
John Prescott

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip Larkin

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
George J. Mitchell

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
Rosalind Russell

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
Thomas R. Kelly

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Deprivation Translations

deprivation in French is rapine, privation, coulage
deprivation in German is Raub, Verlust
deprivation in Italian is perdita, rapina

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