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deprived, ppl. a.|dɪˈpraɪvd|
[f. deprive v. + -ed.]
Dispossessed, divested; bereft; subjected to deprivation; esp. dispossessed of a benefice. In modern use freq. applied to children who lack the benefits of normal home life, parental affection, etc.
1552Huloet, Depriued, abactus, detectus de gradu..priuatus. 1710Hearne Collect. 2 Mar., No Nonjuring or depriv'd Bp. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) II. 168 Birds..are deprived of this apparatus. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 39 The deprived Archbishop showed no disposition to move. 1945Lancet 3 Mar. 294/1 Many of them tell how bitter were their feelings as ‘deprived children’. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 637/1 The plot concerns a middle-aged spinster who was a ‘deprived’ child overshadowed by her brother and his tragic early death..in a search for the secret of her unhappy childhood. |