Tuesday 15 October 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Privation

pri-va-tion



noun :: The state of being deprived; especially the lack of what is needed for existence.



"And Nancy's deepest wounds had all come from the perception that the absence of children from their hearth was dwelt on in her husband's mind as a privation to which he could not reconcile himself." --Eliot, George

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