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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deprive" Quotes from Famous Books

... them, smiling, and replies in their own vein: "Have you charmed into your dwellings the shaggy fellow who disappeared from my sight? If he is your sweetheart, far be it from me, you merry ladies, to deprive you of him!" They laugh loud and long, the Rhine-nymphs. "What will you give us, Siegfried, if we find your game for you?" "I have so far no fruit of my chase. You must tell me what you would like!" "A golden ...

— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall

... for the King of the Kofirans not to oppose this Addition to his Greatness. And thus this ecclesiastical Statesman Jeflur, was brought under a Necessity of employing his Master's Troops, in order to deprive him of so rich an Inheritance. About this Time also, the Throne of Goplone, of which his Father-in-Law had been dispossess'd, became vacant, and Zeokinizul's Honour required, that he should lay hold of this Opportunity ...

— The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans - Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol • Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crbillon

... it is to have been in a state of death. He cannot connect that death with time; he must say that Christ has brought him out of the bonds of eternal death. Throw that idea into the future and you deprive it of all its reality, of all its power. I know what it means all too well while you let me connect it with my present and personal being, with the pangs of conscience which I suffer now. It becomes a mere vague dream and shadow to me when you project it ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... the old man, sharing now in the interest of his young companion, surveyed the progress of the new-comers with a keen sense of curiosity which, for a time, kept him silent. The emotions of William Hinkley were such as to deprive him of all desire for speech; and each, accordingly, found sufficient employment in brooding over his own awakened fancies. Even had they spoken in the ordinary tone of their voices, the sounds could not have reached the persons approaching ...

— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

... only myself.' And so it was settled between them, that should that great misery fall upon them, she would remain at Folking and he would remain with her. Nothing that judge or jury could do would deprive her of the right ...

— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

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