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privation    音标拼音: [prɑɪv'eʃən]
n. 缺乏,穷困

缺乏,穷困

privation
n 1: a state of extreme poverty [synonym: {privation}, {want},
{deprivation}, {neediness}]
2: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights;
"nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [synonym:
{privation}, {deprivation}]

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

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "privation":
abridgment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary,
bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, dearth, debit,
default, defect, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement,
despoilment, destitution, destruction, detriment, disburdening,
disburdenment, disentitlement, dispossession, distress, divestment,
empty purse, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, grinding poverty, gripe,
hand-to-mouth existence, hardship, homelessness, impecuniousness,
impoverishment, indigence, injury, lack, loser, losing,
losing streak, loss, mendicancy, misery, mislaying, misplacement,
misplacing, miss, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need,
neediness, pauperism, pauperization, penury, perdition, pinch,
poorness, poverty, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation,
straits, stripping, suffering, taking away, total loss, want


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    1 Merriam Webster defines privative in exactly the way you describe constituting or predicating privation or absence of a quality in fact it is the only definition it gives It also says that derivation is 14th century and even Terry wasn't that old!
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    How about: We're struggling now, but the future looks bright If the struggle is because of arguments: We're fighting a lot now, but peaceful days are coming If the struggle is because of privation: We're often strapped struggling, but flush better days are coming or We're often poor, but days of plenty are coming
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