All 6 Uses
deprive
in
Story of My Life
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- I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived me of my sight and hearing, in a tiny house consisting of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept.†
Chpt 1deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
- Although I had been told this before, and although I understood my own deprivations, yet I had thought vaguely that since they could hear, they must have a sort of "second sight," and I was not prepared to find one child and another and yet another deprived of the same precious gift.†
Chpt 9
- Although I had been told this before, and although I understood my own deprivations, yet I had thought vaguely that since they could hear, they must have a sort of "second sight," and I was not prepared to find one child and another and yet another deprived of the same precious gift.†
Chpt 9deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
- When her fingers were too tired to spell another word, I had for the first time a keen sense of my deprivations.†
Chpt 21 *
- Ah, how well I understand his deprivation—the perpetual night in which he dwelt— O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!†
Chpt 22
- In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(deprive) to take away or keep from having
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)