All 4 Uses
deprive
in
Wuthering Heights
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- He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the farm.†
p. 32.1deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
- In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.†
p. 137.1
- But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those!'†
p. 218.5 *
- When beneath its walls, I perceived decay had made progress, even in seven months: many a window showed black gaps deprived of glass; and slates jutted off here and there, beyond the right line of the roof, to be gradually worked off in coming autumn storms.†
p. 245.8deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
Definitions:
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(1)
(deprive) to take away or keep from having
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)