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Definition
lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
- He saw even more keenly than Rosamond did the dreariness of taking her into the small house in Bride Street, where she would have scanty furniture around her and discontent within: a life of privation and life with Rosamond were two images which had become more and more irreconcilable ever since the threat of privation had disclosed itself.Book 7 — Two Temptations (25% in)
- He saw even more keenly than Rosamond did the dreariness of taking her into the small house in Bride Street, where she would have scanty furniture around her and discontent within: a life of privation and life with Rosamond were two images which had become more and more irreconcilable ever since the threat of privation had disclosed itself.Book 7 — Two Temptations (25% in)
There are no more uses of "privation" in Middlemarch.
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