privations in English

noun

1

a state in which things that are essential for human well-being such as food and warmth are scarce or lacking.

years of rationing and privation

synonyms: deprivation, hardship, destitution, impoverishment, want, need, neediness, austerity

noun

deprivation, hardship, destitution, impoverishment, want, need, neediness, austerity
deprivation, want, neediness
deprivation

Use "privations" in a sentence

1. The privations of monastery life were evident in his appearance.

2. The survivors suffered many privations before they were rescued.

3. Several villages suffered serious privations during their long isolation during the war.

4. Antonyms for Affluences include poverties, destitutions, indigences, penuries, beggaries, impoverishments, pauperisms, deprivations, hardships and privations

5. The good grace with which they face the latest privations makes the mind boggle.

6. Many of our fellow Christian warriors have to endure privations, are exposed to dangers, or suffer from cold and hunger.

7. Does wearing a hair shirt or enduring forms of self-imposed physical privations make one a spiritual person?

8. Mankind has suffered food shortages as a result of such wars, in addition to privations caused by natural disasters.

9. Abhorring this brief descent into the working class, he began to gain that sympathetic knowledge of its life and privations that informed his writings

10. (Ac 9:32-35) When his message receives no response, he employs discipline; he withdraws his favor and protection, thereby allowing the unrepentant ones to undergo privations, famine, suffering of oppression from their enemies.

11. Two and a half million Berliners, spread between four zones of occupation, faced profound privations: Allied bombing had reduced the city to rubble, shelter and warmth were scarce, the black market dominated the city’s economic life, and starvation loomed