Nutritional privation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's an approach that guarantees only long term privation and nearly inevitable failure. From Wordnik.com. [P2P Foundation] Reference
And I underscore that word privation because recessions, even though they're painful, are not privation. From Wordnik.com. [Free Agent Nation: How America�s New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live] Reference
Summer has come, the fine weather has returned, but I cannot go out -- a privation which is really quite vexatious. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Wigan and Barnsley I saw every kind of privation, but I probably saw much less conscious misery than I should have seen ten years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Indeed it is a kind of privation to end; but end I must -- therefore -- Adieu. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
Now, to accustom one's self to this kind of privation does not become easier with age. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
The use of the term "privation" by Aquinas brings us to an exceedingly interesting consideration. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The consideration gives us the signification of "privation", as used in the theory of substantial change. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Most of the troops had come from the west, and they, too, were used to every kind of privation and hardship. From Wordnik.com. [The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign] Reference
All these men are ready to face any kind of privation, suffering, or danger rather than consent to do what they regard as wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom of God Is Within You] Reference
Far from home and in the face of every kind of privation, the Civil War soldier did his best to recreate the world he left behind him. From Wordnik.com. [AmericanHeritage.com] Reference
It took Iowa until 2004 to reach pre-privation levels. From Wordnik.com. [Other states did not make money on ABC privatization] Reference
The toil and privation had worn him down and he was like iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
"I should think you would feel the pinch of privation, Heavy.". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
There was an expression of care, of overwork, and great privation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Respecting the ablative denoting separation or privation, see Zumpt. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
But to me it's a real privation, because it was the way I worked best. From Wordnik.com. [Her Magic Moment] Reference
We polished off that bottle and became painfully aware of our privation. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
But, to the Californians, perhaps this privation of light is not an evil. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Indeed, she seemed insensible to pain, labor, or privation, on such occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
She passed through hardship, privation and prosperity practically not knowing sickness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The Bethlehem siege had transformed the pilgrimage site into a scene of privation and death. From Wordnik.com. [Under Siege In Bethlehem] Reference
After Pearl Harbor, Americans girded for war and self-privation; now they gird for Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [The New Face Of America] Reference
I fancy some of them have suffered much privation, but happily their order of release has come. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
After so much pain and privation over so many years, many Iraqis were looking for nothing but peace. From Wordnik.com. [Love and War] Reference
Obama's is the only game in town; if it doesn't succeed, the country is condemned to privation and misery. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Versus Conservative] Reference
But predictions that the journey would reveal widespread privation and seas of mud were right only about the mud. From Wordnik.com. [How Much Hunger?] Reference
Once impressed with this fact, and that they are making progress, they bear cheerfully any amount of labor and privation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Probably he never had been robust, and it was only too plain that privation had robbed him of what little strength he had ever had. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
As a result she says she studies her clients and friends for signs of chronic fatigue, depression, compulsive training or privation. From Wordnik.com. [Why Trainers Say, 'Slow Down'] Reference
In case wreck and privation came it would be comforting to know that somewhere in the same wilderness food and friends awaited them. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
And America is not so far, even today, from a time when Thanksgiving had connotations of struggle and privation, as well as abundance. From Wordnik.com. [Rites Of Comfort] Reference
I am overworked, that is all; and as my life of privation does not permit me to repair my forces, I have become anaemic; it is not serious. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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