And do you not see how all this more than acquiescence of Lord Pharanx in the conduct of his son deprives that conduct of half its significance, its intrinsic suspiciousness?
A sharp shock of the sense of the supernatural deprives her of ordered reason.
To the fish in the detached tanks and pools when the heat, by exhausting the water, deprives them at once of motion and sustenance, the practical effect must be the same as when the frost of a northern winter encases them in ice.
The condition of sterility in man may arise either from a condition of the secretion which deprives it of its fecundating powers or it may spring from a malformation which prevents it reaching the point where fecundation takes place.
A council is called, and Agamemnon, being compelled to restore the daughter of Chryses, whom he had taken from him, in revenge deprives Achilles of Hippodameia.
But the counsel of Jove is ever better than that of men, who puts to flight even the valiant man, and easily deprives him of victory, even when he himself has impelled him to fight; who then also excited courage in his breast.
It is a pity because it deprives us of the real joie de vivre which is not dependent on ecstasies of restless emotions or violent amusements.
This deprives conversation of much of its colour and renders it rather commonplace and meagre.
A pure emotion deprives him of personality and annihilates the self in him.
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
I pass from one to another of these three existences, which are equally known to me; but this very mobility deprives me of the advantages of each.
Because, in truth, the crime that deprives the parent of liberty does not invariably involve the liberty of the child, we are, therefore, asked to assent to the proposition that it never does.
The truth is, the crime that deprives a parent of liberty, may, or may not, deprive the child.
It is not difficult to set against every portion of the utterances of Jesus an observation which deprives him of originality.
The doctrine which deprives Congress of the power to establish banking monopolies, equally forbids them in every case, and for every purpose, other than those specified in the clause to which I have adverted.
It deprives the direct utterances of nature of their unconditional validity, in the assertion of which naturalism proper consists.
From the same point of view, woman and child labor, which deprives the child of the care of his mother, must inevitably produce bad results in the growing generation.
This deprives the children of the mother's influence and allows them liberty to associate with children who may be undesirable companions, which would be avoided to a great extent if the mother were present to take care of them.
Divorce in the United States has been strongly attacked for the reason that it deprives the child of one of his legal protectors.
In the next stage of life, among the poor the child takes his place at the parents' table, where lack of means, as well as of knowledge, deprives him of food more suitable than the rough fare of the adult.
One would expect him to have a great success in England, but his excessive shyness so completely deprives him of all ease and grace in conversation that he will perhaps be rated at much less than his real value.
Nothing else was talked of yesterday at Court and elsewhere but the resignation of four members of the Ministry, which deprives it of much of its moral force.
Boiling renders food more tender and digestible, but it deprives it of a considerable portion of its nutritive principle.
Rejection should be courteous, definite, and decisive; but couched in a manner that, whilst itdeprives the suitor of hope, inflicts no pain.
The health of the beast is perhaps best preserved when neglect deprives it of man's attention; then it may suffer from want, but it escapes many of the diseases which caprice or ignorance entail upon the generality of the tribe.
The use of other materials deprives the leather of its stretch, although they may be advantageously used where the latter property is objectionable.
Lastly, if sleep did not bring us rest to our bodies, and a sort of medicine after labour, we should think it contrary to nature, for it deprives us of our senses, and takes away our power of action.
The mother who deprives her small daughter of a doll sacrifices more than she knows to the demon of tidiness, and she robs herself of much delight.
Contentment is ignominious, when it deprives us of our birthright.
Much of the English hard soap is made with kitchen and bone fat, of a very coarse quality; the washing of the numerous successive lyes, however, purifies the foul fats, and deprives them of their offensive smell in a great degree.
A small quantity of lead, or other metal, deprives it of this characteristic quality.
One thousandth part of sulphuric acid equally deprives yeast of its peculiar property, and so does a little strong acetic acid.
The resin of shell-lac has a great tendency to combine with salifiable bases; as with caustic potash, which it deprives of its alkaline taste.
A strong heat deprives it of its lustre, and gives it a brown or blackish-green tint.
The withdrawal of Burnside's ninth army corps deprives us of an important reserve and flank protection, thus increasing the difficulty of an advance.
If suicide were a moral evil solely because it deprives the state of the suicide's life, then for the same reason no one might become a citizen of another state, emigrate, nor might man abandon society and live as a recluse.
The law is against the natural order because it directly deprives a man, and that against his will, of functions which are at times a moral necessity to him, and puts him into the occasion of sin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deprives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
