verb
definition
To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
definition
To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
definition
To bereave.
Examples of deprive in a Sentence
And who was she to deprive him because of her beliefs?
For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship.
The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of the pleasure of spending the evening with you.
At the same time the fact that the lovers are the helpless victims of the fatal force of a magic spell is insisted upon, in order that their career of falsehood and deception may not deprive them of sympathy.
The pope hurled an edict against the Pisans and tried to deprive them of Sardinia, while their merchants were driven from Sicily by the Angevins.
Formerly Kerbela was a self-governing hierarchy and constituted an inviolable sanctuary for criminals; but in 1843 the Turkish government undertook to deprive the city of some of these liberties and to enforce conscription.
One of the principal MS. sources used is the great Kitdb al-Aghani (Book of Songs) of Abu Faraj, which has since been published (20 vols., Boulak, 1868) in Egypt; but no publication of texts can deprive the Essai, which is now very rare, of its value as a trustworthy guide through a tangled mass of tradition.
Although pressed by the minister to prepare for them a complete course of mathematics, he declined to do so, on the ground that it would deprive Mme Bezout of her only income, from the sale of the works of her late husband; he wrote, however (1786), his Traite elementaire de la statique.
Farther south, in Patagonia, the prevailing wind is westerly, in which case the Andes again " blanket " an extensive region and deprive it of rain, turning it into an arid desolate steppe.
To this he replied that one should not deprive a wife of one's embraces and gave me to understand that that was my duty.
Everything is done to deprive him of the remains of his reason and to prepare him for his terrible part.
In 1863 a hostile legislature sought to deprive him of all control over the militia, and failing in this, adjourned without making the appropriations necessary for carrying on the state government.
Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?
Teachers and professors who were weak in English, lawyers, newspaper men and others, combined to deprive these reforms of their legitimate consequence, viz.
Just because you are on a diet doesn't mean you have to deprive yourself.
You don't have to sit at home and deprive yourself.
To overthrow the ecclesiastical hierarchy, to deprive the clergy of all their privileges, to reduce the pope to the rank of a kind of president of a Christian republic, which governs itself, or rather submits to the government of Caesar - such is the dream formed in 1324 by two masters of the university of Paris.
Whitgift, with other heads of the university, deprived Cartwright in 1570 of his professorship, and in September 1571 exercised his prerogative as master of Trinity to deprive him of his fellowship. In June of the same year Whitgift was nominated dean of Lincoln.
Most fad diets are not healthy and will deprive your body of the nutrition it needs.
As you deprive yourself of sleep, you begin to feel more fatigued.
In 1226 he was appointed chancellor by the council governing during the minority of Henry III.; and when the king in 1236 demanded the return of the great seal, Neville refused to surrender it, on the ground that only the authority that had appointed him to the office had power to deprive him of it.
He was still but a vali among the rest, holding his many pashaliks nominally by the sultan's will and subject to annual reappointment; and he knew that both his power and his life would be forfeit so soon as the sultan should be strong enough to deprive him of them.
Parliament may alter the qualifications for the vote, but no law which would deprive coloured persons in the Cape province of the franchise can be effective " unless the bill be passed by both houses of parliament sitting together and at the third reading be agreed to by not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of both houses."
As early as 1285 a law provided for the cutting down of trees and bushes on either side of highways, so as to deprive lawless men of cover.
But, although this is so, it is perhaps hardly desirable to deprive ourselves of the use of two terms instead of one.
But their lives could only be forfeit on the supposition that they sought to deprive the king of his royal supremacy.
In October 1559 the Lords undertook to deprive the queen regent of her authority.
If you're pregnant and on a low carb diet ketosis will deprive your baby's brain of important glucose.
These diets are unhealthy because they deprive your body of necessary and essential vitamins and nutrients.
Enough has already been said as to the relations between the missionaries, the Boer farmers and the Hottentots; this grievance, however, " proved quite secondary to the intensity of feeling with which the colonists saw the steps taken by the government to deprive them of that labour (slave labour) over which they claimed an unquestionable right of property."
Philip was content to deprive Thebes of her dominion over Boeotia; but an unsuccessful revolt in 335 against his son Alexander was punished by the complete destruction of the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar.
One reason for this tendency is the attempt of the Roman Church to deprive the Uniats in America of their married priests.
The religious part of the matter will be dealt with presently; but it is impossible to think that any unbiased judge reading Rabelais can hold the grave-philosopher view or the reckless-goodfellow view without modifications and allowances which practically deprive either of any value.
The object was to deprive him of any real political influence, but circumstances brought about a different result.
A married woman may manage her separate property as if she were single, except that she cannot by her sole act deprive her husband of his courtesy in her real estate.
He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform.
Through bullying, lies and intimidation they will continue to deprive us of our ancient liberties, slice by salami slice.
It would never do to deprive a landowner of a totally unearned increment in land value !
If you deprive your body of its primary source of fuel, you will feel more stressed out when life gets a little crazy.
Removing these branches before they are ready to drop can deprive the tree of important nutrients.
Exclusion from a normal peer group can deprive rejected children of opportunities to develop adaptive social behaviors.
In hiding their sexual identities, homosexual and bisexual adolescents deprive themselves and each other of positive role models.
According to Yeon-Kyun Shin, a biophysics professor at Iowa State University, "If you deprive cholesterol from the brain, then you directly affect the machinery that triggers the release of neurotransmitters."
Mastering frugality does not mean you must deprive yourself of all luxuries in life.
If the prosecutor have first brought him before the civil judge, the evidence is to be sent to the bishop, and the latter, if he thinks the crime has been committed, may deprive him of his office and order, and the judge shall apply to him the proper legal punishment.
Kepler's fidelity in remaining with him to the last did not deprive him of the favour of his successor.
Beaufort gave way on this question, but an unsuccessful attempt was made in 1429 to deprive him of his see.
Afraid that Napoleon would next proceed to deprive him of his title of Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II.
The patriarch feared on the one hand that the growing influence of the Russian Church would give a colour of Slavism to the whole church, and that a Russian might eventually be appointed oecumenical patriarch at Constantinople, while the Rumanians hoped by means of the independence of their church to deprive the Russians of all excuse for interfering in their internal affairs under the pretext of religion.
Sinan Pasha returned to Constantinople to die, it is said, of vexation; and in 1597, the sultan, weary of a disastrous contest, sent Michael a red flag in token of reconciliation, reinvested him for life in an office of which he had been unable to deprive him, and granted the succession to his son.