| n. | 1. | The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. |
| 2. | The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. | |
| 3. | (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. |
| Noun | 1. | deprivation - a state of extreme poverty |
| 2. | deprivation - the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" Synonyms: loss | |
| 3. | deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" Synonyms: privation |
DEPRIVATION, ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393.
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