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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Deprivation of possession.

eing vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [R.] Milton.

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

Deprivation. [R.]

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.

Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvant…

The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Deprivation of life or of spirits. [R.] Bailey.

Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.