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Deprivation
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- 1 The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving. countable
"Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies."
- 2 act of depriving someone of food or money or rights wordnet
- 3 The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.; The act of deposing or divesting of some dignity; in particular the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. countable, uncountable
"A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest."
- 4 the disadvantage that results from losing something wordnet
- 5 The state of being deprived; lack. uncountable
"He was suffering from deprivation of sleep."
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- 6 a state of extreme poverty wordnet
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