Dĕp′rĭ-vā′tion, n.

n. [L. Lat. deprivatio.] 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing, or divesting of some dignity.

2. The state of being deprived; loss; want; bereavement.
3. (Eccl. Law.) The taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Burrill.

☞ Deprivation is a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.