privation in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The best of discipline was futile in the face of the privations that now ensued.
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A naturally acute and critical mind has been sharpened to a razor-edge by his privations.
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He was cast in prison, where for more than five years he was subjected to great suffering and privations.
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Despite growing up in the 1930s, his family did not experience much of the economic privations common in other parts of the country.
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The human cost was also great for the local population, because of the privations they endured.
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In terms of metaphysics, concupiscence is not a being but bad quality, the privation of good or a wound.
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The desert fathers and cenobitic monastic communities used the desert's solitude and privations to develop stoic self-discipline (asceticism).
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A right to life free from the privations of poverty.
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By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
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Suggested causes include poison, exposure and privation, or simply strange and unwitnessed circumstances.
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