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Definition of Privilege

1. Verb. Bestow a privilege upon. "They Privilege him to write the letter"

2. Noun. A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all.

3. Noun. A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right). ; "Suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"

4. Noun. (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship.

Definition of Privilege

1. n. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.

2. v. t. To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.

Definition of Privilege

1. Noun. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise; preferential treatment. ¹

2. Noun. The status or existence of such benefit or advantage. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court. ¹

4. Verb. (archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest. ¹

5. Verb. (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Privilege

1. [v -LEGED, -LEGING, -LEGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Privilege

privatizer privatizers privatizes privatizing prived priveledge prively privet privet andromeda privet hedge

privets privier privies priviest priviledg privilege privilege against self incrimination privilege of the floor privileged privileges

privileging privily privy privy(p) privy council privy councils privy purse privy seal

Literary usage of Privilege

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"To the King it was intolerable that privilege of Parliament should stand between him and the object of his displeasure ; and, as Parliament alone could ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"Lord Chancellor Brougham, however, decided that privilege of Parliament was no protection against an attachment for what was in its nature a criminal ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"alone enjoyed and asserted the inestimable privilege of being tried only by their peers ; and even in a capital accusation, a synod of their brethren were ..."

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