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Privilege

noun

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

A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right). Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative.

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

verb

(past & past part. privileged; pres. part. privileging)

Bestow a privilege upon. Synonyms: favor, favour.

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"Privilege" Quotes from Famous Books

... Church. With many we had bowed our heads in recognition of their deep sorrow, and with many had clasped hands in the day of their rejoicing. And now, to be sent back to a third Pastorate within a period of twenty years, could not be deemed less than a great privilege. ...

— Thirty Years in the Itinerancy • Wesson Gage Miller

... unforeseen circumstance forces me to leave for the North immediately, so I beg your ladyship's pardon if I do not avail myself of the honour of bidding you good-bye. My business may keep me employed for about a week, so I shall not have the privilege of being present at your ladyship's water-party on Wednesday. I remain your ladyship's most humble and most ...

— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... in search of something to satisfy their hunger, rather than the scalps of the white men. The author of this book won their confidence and friendship by dividing with them his rations, and showing them that he was willing to compensate them for the privilege of traveling through their country. He had so many friendly conferences and made so many treaties with them while on his trips across the plains that he came to be ...

— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus

... doctrine, those same forms were being battered down on another side by means of that very theory. Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation. There is a risk that the privilege which withdraws the privileged elements of Society from competition will cause them to degenerate. In fact, Jacoby in his Studies in Selection, in connexion with Heredity in Man,[252] concludes that "sterility, mental debility, premature death and, ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... sorry enough that you, almost a stranger among us, should be singled out as a victim in this case. It don't speak well for the judgment of our citizens. However, we are bound to set you right, and I've come to say that I shall esteem it a privilege to defend you—that is, if you have not a more able friend ...

— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch

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