“Deprivation for Privation. ‘The mendicant showed the effects of deprivation.’ Deprivation refers to the act of depriving, taking away from; privation is the state of destitution, of not having.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
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