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verb

Deprive v. t. (past & past part. deprived; pres. part. depriving)

To take away; to put an end; to destroy. (Obs.) "'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life."

To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. "God hath deprived her of wisdom." "It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself."

To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. "A minister deprived for inconformity."

Synonyms: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.

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Etymology of 'Deprive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deprive" Quotes from Famous Books

... the average man. But like all other forms of energy it is subject to the law of causality. It is not omnipotent so that it is able to set at naught the effects of opposing forces. Nor can it develop in the absence of nourishing circumstances. Deprive it of cultural opportunities and it is like the sprout of the majestic tree which is deprived of moisture, or the great river cut off from the supply of snow and rain. In other words, it is a product ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... and not until the discovery of America had advanced much nearer completion, so that its value began to be more correctly understood, that political and commercial motives combined in determining England to attack Spain through America, and to deprive her of supremacy in the colonial and maritime world. Then the voyages of the Cabots assumed an importance entirely new, and could be quoted as the basis of a prior claim on the part of the English Crown, to lands which it [through ...

— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames

... bulwark proved impregnable: both the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Rolls Court decided in Colenso's favour. Not only were his enemies thus forbidden to deprive him of his salary, but their excommunication of him was made null and void; it became, indeed, a subject of ridicule, and even a man so nurtured in religious sentiment as John Keble confessed and lamented ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... head shorter let him make the ice-cold Jotun, and of his rings deprive him; then of that treasure thou,[63] which Fafnir ...

— The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson • Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

... questions of the Faith were concerned she had the craft of a fox and the cruelty of a tiger. She was even indignant with Margaret. Had not enough been done for her? she asked. Had she not even passed her royal word that no steps should be taken to deprive the accused of such property as he might own in Spain if he were found guilty, and that none of those penalties which, according to law and custom fell upon the children of such infamous persons, should attach to her, ...

— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard

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