deprivation

Definition

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.

Example Sentences

• "Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies."
• "A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest."
• "He was suffering from deprivation of sleep."