Today's Word "privation"
An act or instance of depriving
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privation \pry-VAY-shun\ (noun) - 1 : An act or instance of depriving. 2 : The state of being deprived of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need.
"Alice's family was so destitute as to often be without a place to live, and this privation shaped her opportunities and her personality from the outset."
Privation derives from Latin privatio, from privatus, past participle of privare, "to strip, to deprive of," originally, "to separate from, to put aside, to exempt," from privus, "single, private."
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