Privation

Privation
Privation Pri*va"tion (pr[-i]*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See {Private}.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. [1913 Webster]

3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. [1913 Webster]

Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. [1913 Webster]

Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton. [1913 Webster]


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  • PRIVATION — PRIVATI Confondre manque et privation revient à occulter la distinction soulignée par Kant dans l’Essai pour introduire en philosophie le concept de grandeur négative entre opposition logique et opposition réelle. La connexion logique n’a guère… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • privation — Privation. s. f. v. Manque ou perte d un bien, d un avantage qu on devroit avoir. La privation de la veuë. la privation de l oüie. il est dans une privation de toutes choses. Aristote reconnoist trois principes des choses naturelles, la forme, la …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • privation — Privation, Priuatio, Viduitas. Privation de quelque chose chere, comme quand la femme a perdu son mary, le pere ses enfans, Orbitas. Privation d office, Eiuratio ignominiosa. B …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Privation — Privation, (v. lat.), 1) Beraubung, Absetzung; 2) einseitige Entziehung eines einer Privatperson zustehenden Rechtes, bes. wenn dieselbe als Strafe eintritt; z.B. bei der Emphyteusis (s.d.), wenn der Emphyteuta sein Recht ohne Anzeige an den… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Privation — (lat.), Beraubung, Entziehung; Privatio beneficii, im Kirchenrechte die Entziehung der Pfründe durch den kanonischen Prozeß als Strafe wegen schwerer Vergehen von Geistlichen; privativ, beraubend, ausschließend; Alpha privativum, s. »A« …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Privation — Privatiōn (lat.), Beraubung, Entziehung; privatīv, beraubend, ausschließend …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Privation — Privation, Beraubung; Mangel; privativ, beraubend, entziehend; abgesondert …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • privation — I noun absence, attachment, bad fortune, bad luck, bankruptcy, beggary, bereavement, confiscation, dearth, deprivation, deprivement, destitution, dispossession, dissipation, distress, divestment, egestas, exhaustion, famine, financial straits,… …   Law dictionary

  • privation — mid 14c., action of depriving, from O.Fr. privacion, from L. privationem (nom. privatio) a taking away, noun of action from pp. stem of privare deprive (see PRIVATE (Cf. private)). Meaning want of life s comforts or of some necessity is attested… …   Etymology dictionary

  • privation — 1 *lack, want, dearth, absence, defect Analogous words: negation, nullification, annulling, abrogation (see corresponding verbs at NULLIFY) 2 *poverty, want, destitution, indigence, penury Analogous words: depletion, draining, exhaustion,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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