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Privation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being deprived; particularly, deprivation or absence of what is necessary for comfort. He endures his privations with wonderful fortitude.

2. The act of removing something possessed; the removal or destruction of any thing or quality. The garrison was compelled by privation to surrender.

3. For what is this contagious sin of kind

4. But a privation of that grace within?

5. Absence, in general. Darkness is a privation of light.

6. The act of the mind in separating a thing from something appendant.

7. The act of degrading from rank or office.

8. [But in this sense, deprivation is now used. See Deprivation.]

Privation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.

3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

Loss Roget’s Thesaurus §776

N. loss, deperdition, perdition, forfeiture, # lapse, privation, bereavement, deprivation, riddance, damage, squandering, waste

V. lose, incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss, miss, mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers, be without, forfeit, get rid of, waste, be lost, lapse

Adj. losing, not having, shorn of, deprived of, denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off, dispossessed, rid of, quit of, out of pocket, lost, long lost, irretrievable, off one's hands

Int. farewell to, adieu to

Poverty Roget’s Thesaurus §804

N. poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, neediness, lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door, bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances, slender means, narrow means, straits, hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity, beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, broken fortune, loss of fortune, insolvency, empty pocket, empty purse, light purse, beggarly account of empty boxes, poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling, pauvre diable, fakir|, schnorrer|, homeless person

V. be poor, want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish, go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin, not have a penny, not have a shot in one's locker, beg one's bread, tirer le diable par la queue, run into debt, render poor, impoverish, reduce, reduce to poverty, pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish

Adj. poor, indigent, poverty-stricken, badly off, poorly off, ill off, poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a job, fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless, unportioned, unmoneyed, impecunious, out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash, without a rap, not worth a rap, qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up, out at elbows, out at heels, seedy, bare-footed, beggarly, beggared, destitute, fleeced, stripped, bereft, bereaved, reduced, homeless, in want, needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened, put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet, embarrassed, under hatches, involved, insolvent

Adv. in forma pauperis

Phr. zonam perdidit, "a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree", a pobreza no hay verguenza, "he that is down can fall no lower", poca roba poco pensiero, "steeped . . . in poverty to the very lips", "the short and simple annals of the poor"