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Definition
lacking something that is desired
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suffered great sadness because of loss or lack of something expected or strongly desired
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deprived (taken away something that is desired)
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suffered great sadness because of loss or lack of something expected or strongly desired
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deprived (taken away something that is desired)
- I will not bow to such a one, last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity.5.7 — Book 5 Chapter 7 — The Pyre of Denethor (55% in)
- But Imrahil said: 'So victory is shorn of gladness, and it is bitter bought, if both Gondor and Rohan are in one day bereft of their lords.5.8 — Book 5 Chapter 8 — The Houses of Healing (33% in)
- From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired.6.3 — Book 6 Chapter 3 — Mount Doom (90% in)
There are no more uses of "bereft" in The Return of the King.
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