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deprivation|dɛprɪˈveɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. dēprīvātiōn-em, n. of action from dēprīvāre to deprive.]
1. The action of depriving or fact of being deprived; the taking away of anything enjoyed; dispossession, loss.
1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 In ieopardie of loss and depriuacion of his crowne and dignitee roial. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 15 All her deprivations either of life or liberty, being legall, and necessitated. 1731Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. II. 2 Excommunication, Deprivation of Ecclesiastical Burial. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 250 [Of evils] there is none more justly dreaded..than a deprivation of sight. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I III. vi. 79 He accounted these deprivations not among the least of the many he now endured. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 260 The loss of a son or brother, or the deprivation of fortune.
†b. Const. from. Obs.
1570–1Act of Assembly in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 43 Also the suspension and deprivation of them therefra. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 317 She..was punished with depriuation from both kindes [in the sacrament]. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 654 Danger of deprivaton from all authoritie by them.
2. spec. The action of depriving any one of an office, dignity, or benefice; dispossession, deposition; esp. the depriving an ecclesiastic of a benefice or preferment as an act of punishment or discipline.
1551Cranmer Answ. to Gardiner 2 The occasion of your worthy depriuation and punishment. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1357/2 Sufficient force whereby the bull of hir maiesties depriuation might be publikelie executed. 1641Termes de la Ley 110 b, Deprivation is when an Abbot, Bishop, Parson, Vicar, Prebend, &c. is deprived or deposed from his preferment for any matter in fact or in Law. a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 192 Sheldon..seemed to apprehend that a very small number would fall under the deprivation, and that the gross of the party would conform. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 90 A sentence of deprivation..was pronounced. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 49 Several months had been allowed him [Sherlock] before he incurred suspension, several months more before he incurred deprivation. |