Privations is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIVATIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PRIVATION, the act of depriving, or taking away
• a state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking
• the loss or absence of a quality or attribute that is normally present
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or instance of depriving; deprivation

Words related to PRIVATIONS

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Words that contain PRIVATIONS

deprivations18

How to use PRIVATIONS in a sentence

• After enduring great privations, and the danger of being taken by predatory bands, he at last reached Meerut, and thence accompanied the force to Delhi.
• Ralston understood that if ever he should need a man to hunt down that quarry through peril and privations, here at his hand was the man on whom he could rely.
• The real hardships and privations for us began only now.
• They brave the dangers of savage warfare, suffer the privations of a frontier life, and with the hand of toil bring the wilderness into cultivation.
• The early Catholic emigrants to Kentucky, in common with their brethren of other denominations, had to endure many privations and hardships.
• The men were dirty in the service of war, and haggard after long privations in the field.
• And it was here that we made the acquaintance of families, and friendships formed that were to survive not only the privations of the plains but were to last a life time.
• Of this period of their existence my mother rarely spoke, and it must have been one of severe privations.
• The privations we had suffered the preceding winter increased the enjoyment of our present comforts.
• Wherever there exists a sincere friendship, opportunities of cultivating it are gladly embraced, and the opposite privations are regretted.
• Having met with some Moors, they took them for guides, and after long marches, and the most cruel privations, they arrived at the Senegal, on the 23d of July, in the evening.
• While they were suffering the severest privations the harvest was approaching, and, at length, delivered St.
• Many of our calling, I am grieved I to know, are even now severely suffering, and suffering, I must add, with unexampled patience and fortitude under great and trying privations.
• The women of that time elevated the privations of that kind of life by the exaltation of their sentiments.
• They labor quietly, endure privations and pains, live and die, and throughout everything see the good without seeing the vanity.
• He was frightened to think of the privations those he loved would suffer.
• In her willingness to make sacrifices and her cheerfulness under privations, she set them all an example.
• Most of the winters of the thirty years of married life pressed privations upon them.
• The sufferings and privations he had endured had exasperated his proud and haughty spirit almost to madness, and nothing but the blood of his enemies could appease his resentment.
• After suffering many privations during the war in Germany she wrote to the Guardian in 1947 and he encouraged her suggestion to pioneer to England.
• Gabriel guessed the privations that his brother underwent, and was anxious to contribute to the expenses of the little household.
• This seasonable supply enabled us to buy some good food, and to make some amends for our late privations.
• They reached Big Sandy, after enduring the privations and fatigue incident to such an undertaking.
• The twelve escaped to Djemaa only after terrible privations and sufferings.
• We, too, have wives and children and privations and frightful apprehensions.
• They submitted with equal cheerfulness to the privations and excesses of their new conditions.
• But Sosia did not perceive it, for it was the dusk of eve, and he was full of his own privations.
• It was thus, that after having passed the seas, and suffered all sorts of fatigues and privations, I lost in a moment all my hopes of fortune.
• This sort of life, his frequent privations, his innumerable disappointments, drove him in good earnest to the hospital.
• My health, too, gives way, and I cannot now put up so well with fatigue and privations as at first.
• He suffered dreadful privations during the keen frosty nights, owing to the want of fire, light, and sometimes sufficient clothing.

Similar words containing PRIVATION without suffix s

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