deprivation
(dɛprɪˈveɪʃən)
[ad. med.L. dēprīvātiōn-em, n. of action from dēprīvāre to deprive.]
1. The action of depriving or fact of being deprived; the taking away of anything enjoyed; dispossession, loss.
| 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 In ieopardie of loss and depriuacion of his crowne and dignitee roial. a 1635 Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 15 All her deprivations either of life or liberty, being legall, and necessitated. 1731 Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. II. 2 Excommunication, Deprivation of Ecclesiastical Burial. 1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 250 [Of evils] there is none more justly dreaded..than a deprivation of sight. 1830 D'Israeli Chas. I III. vi. 79 He accounted these deprivations not among the least of the many he now endured. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 260 The loss of a son or brother, or the deprivation of fortune. |
† b. Const. from. Obs.
| 1570–1 Act of Assembly in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 43 Also the suspension and deprivation of them therefra. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 317 She..was punished with depriuation from both kindes [in the sacrament]. 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 654 Danger of deprivaton from all authoritie by them. |
2. spec. The action of depriving any one of an office, dignity, or benefice; dispossession, deposition; esp. the depriving an ecclesiastic of a benefice or preferment as an act of punishment or discipline.
| 1551 Cranmer Answ. to Gardiner 2 The occasion of your worthy depriuation and punishment. 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1357/2 Sufficient force whereby the bull of hir maiesties depriuation might be publikelie executed. 1641 Termes de la Ley 110 b, Deprivation is when an Abbot, Bishop, Parson, Vicar, Prebend, &c. is deprived or deposed from his preferment for any matter in fact or in Law. a 1715 Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 192 Sheldon..seemed to apprehend that a very small number would fall under the deprivation, and that the gross of the party would conform. 1839 Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 90 A sentence of deprivation..was pronounced. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 49 Several months had been allowed him [Sherlock] before he incurred suspension, several months more before he incurred deprivation. |