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Meanings of privation in English
Usage of privation in English
1
His happiness was evidently incomplete in the privation of a similar pair.
2
One great privation in this winter travelling is the want of water.
3
It was meant to be boom-time after decades of war and privation.
4
Another is reared in poverty and has to toil and suffer privation.
5
Nor had the privation of the long journey dimmed in my mind.
6
Nor had foraging put them in a condition to bear renewed privation.
7
This is a generation with little experience of privation or economic worry.
8
We better ourselves by the privation of our reason, and drilling it.
9
The fortnight had been one of severe privation and discipline to her.
10
Scholars have found poverty tolerable compared with the privation of intellectual food.
11
For the rest, he was dark and gaunt from exposure and privation.
12
The mother was a girl of twenty, worn with hardship and privation.
13
And as the form is a perfection, so privation removes a perfection.
14
It stood for years of privation, heart-breaking toil, and disappointment-theworst kind.
15
The trap was, to a large extent, insurance against privation and hardship.
16
The histories of strife and privation did not move her a hair's-breadth.
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