Deprivation
n.- The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
- The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
- (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.

