Crossword-Solution: PRIVATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Privation | n. | The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. |
| Privation | n. | The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. |
| Privation | n. | The condition of being absent; absence; negation. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “PRIVATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| state in which food and other essentials for well being are lacking | 1 answer |
| state in which food and other essential items for well being are lacking | 1 answer |
| loss or lack of the necessities of life | 1 answer |
| lacking the basic necessities of life | 1 answer |
| pauperism | 9 answers |
| ACT OF DEPRIVING SOMEONE OF FOOD OR MONEY OR RIGHTS | 11 answers |
| LACKING necessities of life | 11 answers |
| A state of extreme poverty | 11 answers |
| neediness | 35 answers |
| Penury | 35 answers |
| poorness | 35 answers |
| impecuniousness | 35 answers |
| patchiness | 37 answers |
| beggarliness | 38 answers |
| dispossession | 39 answers |
| "Bankruptcy" | 39 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| impoverishment | 40 answers |
| insolvency | 41 answers |
| destitution | 43 answers |
| scarceness | 44 answers |
| Arrears | 50 answers |
| DEBIT ___ | 53 answers |
| Forfeit | 65 answers |
| Hardship | 74 answers |
| need | 79 answers |
| "Want ___?" | 79 answers |
| Suffering | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIVATION (5)
Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night, Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, Privation mere of light and absent day.
The sooner we start, the better, for I see no other way, and it will take us more than a month to travel the weary, frigid miles that lie before us.” For five days of cold and suffering and privation we traversed the rough and frozen way which lies at the foot of the ice-barrier.
Once on board the _Marjorie W._ the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships, and torture, extending over a period of ten years.
His old-time affection for his “little woman,” unable to stand the test of privation, had lapsed by degrees, and what little of it was left was changed, distorted, and made monstrous by the alcohol.
The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast.
Quotes with PRIVATION (3)
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.