In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
DEPRIVATION
privation, deprivation
(noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; “nutritional privation”; “deprivation of civil rights”
loss, deprivation
(noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something; “his loss of credibility led to his resignation”; “losing him is no great deprivation”
privation, want, deprivation, neediness
(noun) a state of extreme poverty
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
deprivation (countable and uncountable, plural deprivations)
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
(uncountable) The state of being deprived
Synonyms: privation, loss, want, bereavement
(countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
(followed by “of”) lack
Usage notes
• Distinguish from depravation.
Source: Wiktionary
Dep`ri*va"tion, n. Etym: [LL. deprivatio.]
1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
3. (Eccl. Law)
Definition: the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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