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Definition of Privileged

1. Adjective. Blessed with privileges. "The privileged few"

2. Adjective. Not subject to usual rules or penalties. "A privileged statement"

3. Adjective. Confined to an exclusive group. "Privileged information"

Definition of Privileged

1. a. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.

Definition of Privileged

1. Verb. (past of privilege) ¹

2. Adjective. having special priveleges ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Privileged

1. privilege [v] - See also: privilege

Lexicographical Neighbors of Privileged

privatizing prived priveledge prively privet privet andromeda privet hedge privets privier privies

priviest priviledg privilege privilege against self incrimination privilege of the floor privileged (current term) privileges privileging privily privy

privy(p) privy council privy councils privy purse privy seal prix fixe prizable prize

Literary usage of Privileged

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

1. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"privileged QUESTIONS. §480. Possession ' It is no possession of a bill unless it be delivered to the Clerk to read, or the Speaker reads of a bin by the the ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"A publication in good faith of the truth as to the qualifications of a candidate for public office is not libel, being qualifiedly privileged. [Ed. Note. ..."

3. Robert's Rules of Order Revised for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry Martyn Robert (1915)
"privileged Motions. See 14 for a list and the general characteristics of these ... This motion is privileged only when made while another question is ..."

4. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1916)
"THE privileged CLASSES Thus far, in analyzing social and economic conditions in the eighteenth century, we have concerned ourselves with the lowest class, ..."

5. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"PRIVILEGE—privileged CASES. The church having no jurisdiction but that which, sovereigns have granted it, and the judges of the church being thus only ..."

6. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Alexis Caswell Angell (1890)
"privileged when sent to effect the writer's Damm, 8 CBH s. 697. Where a purpose, and not in ... 106. munications to be regarded as privileged 8 Regina v. ..."

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