n. [ LL. deprivatio. ]
☞ Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See Private. ]
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 ]