All 3 Uses of
privation
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- M. d'Epinay, to whom I had promised the interest of this sum, shall receive it, even if I endure the most cruel privations."†
Chpt 59-60
- He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all sorts; still, by degrees nature, or rather custom, had prevailed, and he suffered from being naked, dirty, and hungry.†
Chpt 107-108 *
- Then a strange reaction took place; he who had just abandoned 5,000,000 endeavored to save the 50,000 francs he had left, and sooner than give them up he resolved to enter again upon a life of privation—he was deluded by the hopefulness that is a premonition of madness.†
Chpt 115-116
Definition:
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(privation) lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner