depredation vs deprivation
Definitions
noun
- an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- (usually plural) a destructive action
Examples
Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
They make good the depredations of history to give us a Rome that appears both whole and eternally modern.
The deer had become very numerous by this time in the New Forest, and there were numerous complaints about their depredations.
Definitions
noun
- act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
- a state of extreme poverty
- the disadvantage that results from losing something
Examples
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.
Punters and racegoers have felt only a sense of deprivation through the snow and ice of recent weeks.
