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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Old form of bereaved

bereft

 adjective
     
be‧reft
1

bereft of hope/meaning/life etc

completely without any hope etc:
The team now seems bereft of inspiration.
2 feeling very sad and lonely:
His death in 1990 left her completely bereft.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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