Definition of "privations" [privations]

• Plural form of privation. (noun)

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• "Until now, though, East Europe had a crucial advantage that the Soviets lacked: new governments that enjoyed genuine public support and an invigorating sense of national renaissance that made short-term privations tolerable."
• "Therefore the emigres arriving in the Government General will be millions -- millions without money, without clothes, without the possibility of earning a living, millions condemned to the hardest privations from the lowest possible conditions of life to famine."
• "We shall not have it for the seeking; it may exist in the midst of what men may call privations and sorrows; but it will exist in a very large sense and it will be ours."