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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pri-vā'tion, n.

noun

n. [Lat. privatio, Fr. privation, Pr. privacio, Sp. privacion, It. privazione. See PRIVATE.]

  1. The act of depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
  2. The state of being deprived of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
  3. The condition of being absent or wanting; absence; negation.

Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in coming Night, Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, Privation mere of light and absent day. Milton.