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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Privation \Pri*va"tion\, 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.

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

   3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

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

            Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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