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Meanings of privation in English
Synonyms
Examples for "want"
Examples for "want"
1
What I want is information; not useful information, of course; useless information.
2
You cry 'freedom,' but mean 'equal.' You think people really want either?
3
In other words: The companies can use inventors' patents however they want.
4
Small companies need and want health and safety information, the survey revealed.
5
However, a number of people also want second passports from other countries.
1
However, substantial differences in oral health by residential deprivation remain among adolescents.
2
However, a clear effect of sleep deprivation on aggressive behaviors remains unclear.
3
He said deprivation and poorer backgrounds may partly explain their higher risk.
4
Conclusions: The availability of physical activity facilities declines with level of deprivation.
5
Similar, limited areas of gross deprivation are identified within our major cities.
1
But Sayle still has one vital authorly attribute: a lack of neediness.
2
Audrey's willing selflessness depleted her, and her neediness kept her coming back.
3
Nick plays dumb and combats her neediness with some cold emotional unavailability.
4
But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
5
Backless and hollow inside -literallyand figuratively-skogsrås' allure was in their neediness.
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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