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Meanings of privation in English

Portuguese
pobreza
Catalan
privació

A state of extreme poverty.

        pobreza

        Lack of the means of subsistence.

              Usage of privation in English
              1
              His happiness was evidently incomplete in the privation of a similar pair.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 / A Magaz...
              2
              One great privation in this winter travelling is the want of water.
              Georgie's Present, or, Tales of Newfoundland
              3
              It was meant to be boom-time after decades of war and privation.
              Reuters
              4
              Another is reared in poverty and has to toil and suffer privation.
              Making the Most of Life
              5
              Nor had the privation of the long journey dimmed in my mind.
              Outpost
              6
              Nor had foraging put them in a condition to bear renewed privation.
              Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, ...
              7
              This is a generation with little experience of privation or economic worry.
              The Irish Times
              8
              We better ourselves by the privation of our reason, and drilling it.
              Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
              9
              The fortnight had been one of severe privation and discipline to her.
              Fairy Fingers / A Novel
              10
              Scholars have found poverty tolerable compared with the privation of intellectual food.
              Character
              11
              For the rest, he was dark and gaunt from exposure and privation.
              Montlivet
              12
              The mother was a girl of twenty, worn with hardship and privation.
              Lady Merton, Colonist
              13
              And as the form is a perfection, so privation removes a perfection.
              Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
              14
              It stood for years of privation, heart-breaking toil, and disappointment-theworst kind.
              The Rim of the Desert
              15
              The trap was, to a large extent, insurance against privation and hardship.
              The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T...
              16
              The histories of strife and privation did not move her a hair's-breadth.
              The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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              privació
              Privation through the time
              Privation across language varieties
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