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privation Logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We say that that is capable of some particular faculty or possession has suffered privation when the faculty or possession in question is in no way present in that in which, and at the time at which, it should naturally be present. 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. In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the somber secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels. |
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