deprivation

deprivation
    n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want},
         {deprivation}, {neediness}]
    2: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his
       loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is
       no great deprivation" [syn: {loss}, {deprivation}]
    3: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights;
       "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn:
       {privation}, {deprivation}]
    

Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
   1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act
      of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
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   2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want;
      bereavement.
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   3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice,
      or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
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   Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first
         takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes
         from the order.
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DEPRIVATION, ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is 
deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or 
dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393. 
    

186 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprivation":
      abnegation, abridgment, absence, awayness, banishment,
      bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary,
      bereavement, blackballing, blank, cashiering, contradiction, cost,
      curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination,
      declinature, declining, deconsecration, defectiveness, deficiency,
      deficit, defrocking, degradation, demotion, denial, denudation,
      depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivement,
      despoilment, destitution, destruction, dethronement, detriment,
      disagreement, disallowance, disassembly, disbarment, disbarring,
      disburdening, disburdenment, disclaimer, disclamation,
      discrownment, disenthronement, disentitlement, disfellowship,
      dismantlement, dismemberment, dismissal, disobedience,
      displacement, displuming, dispossession, dissent, divestment,
      drought, emptiness, empty purse, exclusion, excommunication, exile,
      expatriation, expense, expulsion, extradition, famine, firing,
      forced resignation, forfeit, forfeiture, fugitation,
      grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, holding back,
      homelessness, impeachment, imperfection, impoverishment,
      incompleteness, indigence, injury, kicking upstairs, lack,
      liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy,
      moneylessness, nay, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness,
      negation, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity,
      neverness, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing,
      noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance,
      nonoccurrence, nonpresence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being,
      nothingness, nowhereness, nullity, omission, ostracism,
      ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow,
      overthrowal, pauperism, pauperization, pensioning off, penury,
      perdition, pinch, privation, purge, recantation, refusal,
      rejection, relegation, relieving, removal, repudiation, retention,
      retirement, robbery, ruin, rustication, sacrifice, shortage,
      shortcoming, shortfall, spoliation, starvation, stripping,
      subtraction, superannuation, suspension, taking away, thumbs-down,
      total loss, transportation, turndown, unactuality, unchurching,
      undoing, unfrocking, unreality, unseating, unwillingness, vacancy,
      vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage, withholding