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Definition of Privilege

Privilege 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. See Call, Put, Spread, etc. To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest. To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver. Related Definitions: Advantage, All, An, Arrest, As, Authorize, Benefit, Bring, Burden, By, Call, Condition, Danger, Deliver, Enjoyed, Enjoyment, Exempt, Exemption, Evil, Favor, Franchise, From, Good, Grant, Immunity, Into, Invest, Not, Of, Or, Particular, Peculiar, Prerogative, Privilege, Put, Right, See, Some, Special, Spread, To, With

Privilege Quotations The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield

Privilege Translations privilege in Afrikaans is voorreg privilege in Dutch is preferentie, privilege, prae privilege in German is Privileg, Vorrecht, Sonderrecht privilege in Latin is beneficium privilege in Spanish is privilegio

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