Word Meanings - DEPRIVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of

Additional info about word: DEPRIVATION

the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPRIVATION)

• Abduction
• Abstraction
• subtraction
• deprivation
• ablution
• rape
• seizure
• appropriation
• Privation
• Deprivation
• destitution
• absence
• negation
• loss
• bereavement
• hardship
• want

Related words: (words related to DEPRIVATION)

• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• HARDSHIP
  That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• SUBTRACTION
  The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
• SEIZURE
  1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• ABDUCTION
  The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (more info) 1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• ABLUTION
  A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• BEREAVEMENT
  The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
• ABLUTIONARY
  Pertaining to ablution.
• DESTITUTION
  The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
• PRIVATION
  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;
• NEGATION
  Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has. (more info) not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. ah to say; cf. F. négation. See 1. The act
• DENEGATION
  Denial.
• SELF-ABNEGATION
  Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
• ABNEGATION
  a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
• DISAPPROPRIATION
  The act of disappropriating.
• RESEIZURE
  A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.