1. (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

2. (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

3. (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

abnegation abridgment absence awayness banishment bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary bereavement blackballing blank cashiering contradiction cost curtailment damage dead loss debit declension declination declinature declining deconsecration defectiveness deficiency deficit defrocking degradation demotion denial denudation depluming deportation deposal deposition deprivement despoilment destitution destruction dethronement detriment disagreement disallowance disassembly disbarment disbarring disburdening disburdenment disclaimer disclamation discrownment disenthronement disentitlement disfellowship dismantlement dismemberment dismissal disobedience displacement displuming dispossession dissent divestment drought emptiness empty purse exclusion excommunication exile expatriation expense expulsion extradition famine firing forced resignation forfeit forfeiture fugitation grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence holding back homelessness impeachment imperfection impoverishment incompleteness indigence injury kicking upstairs lack liquidation loser losing losing streak loss mendicancy moneylessness nay necessitousness necessity need neediness negation negative negative answer negativeness negativity neverness nihility nix no nonacceptance nonbeing noncompliance nonconsent nonentity nonexistence nonobservance nonoccurrence nonpresence nonreality nonsubsistence not-being nothingness nowhereness nullity omission ostracism ostracization ousting outlawing outlawry overthrow overthrowal pauperism pauperization pensioning off penury perdition pinch privation purge recantation refusal rejection relegation relieving removal repudiation retention retirement robbery ruin rustication sacrifice shortage shortcoming shortfall spoliation starvation stripping subtraction superannuation suspension taking away thumbs-down total loss transportation turndown unactuality unchurching undoing unfrocking unreality unseating unwillingness vacancy vacuity vacuum void want wantage withholding