privations

Synonyms

needs destitution impoverishment indigence neediness

Examples

Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations. John of Kronstadt

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided. Elif Batuman

According to a demographic study, there were 92,000 indirect deaths in Belgium (62,000 deaths due to wartime privations and 30,000 in the Spanish Flu pandemic). Source: Internet

Don Quixote's tendency to intervene violently in matters irrelevant to himself, and his habit of not paying debts, result in privations, injuries and humiliations (with Sancho often the victim). Source: Internet

Bujac, Jean, Les campagnes de l'armèe Hellènique, 1918–1922, Paris, 1930 p. 339 * According to a demographic study there were 150,000 indirect deaths in Greece due to wartime privations. Source: Internet

Even the new German rulers of France suffered from the wartime privations. Source: Internet