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Webster 1913 Edition
Deprive
De-prive′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Deprived
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Depriving
.] [LL.
deprivare
, deprivatium
, to divest of office; L. de-
+ privare
to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver
. See Private
.] 1.
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
[Obs.]
’Tis honor to deprive
dishonored
life. Shakespeare
2.
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; – with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
God hath
deprived
her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17.
It was seldom that anger
deprived
him of power over himself. Macaulay.
3.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
Syn. – To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deprive
DEPRIVE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take from; to bereave of something possessed or enjoyed; followed by of; as, to deprive a man of sight; to deprive one of strength, of reason, or of property. This has a general signification, applicable to a lawful or unlawful taking.God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job 39.