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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

... in the trail of the dog. A new excitement possessed him that was more thrilling than the excitement of the hunt. Being human, it was his privilege to add two and two together, and out of two and two he made—Baree. There was little doubt in his mind. The thought had flashed on him first when Lerue had mentioned the black wolf. He was convinced after his ...

— Baree, Son of Kazan • James Oliver Curwood

... come down to the prosaic work of completing a cloth canoe-tent, but, to De Plonville's credit, he persevered. He met the young lady on several occasions, but never by the coast. The better they became acquainted the more he wished to have the privilege of rescuing her from some deadly danger; but the opportunity did not come. It seldom does, except in books, as he bitterly remarked to himself. The sea was exasperatingly calm, and Miss Margaret was mistress ...

— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr

... cautionary reserve which presents bayonet so promptly to the good-looking. Even with my worship avowed, and the manifestation of grateful regard which a woman of fine quality always returns for elevated and unexacting admiration I was still left with such privilege of access as is granted to the family-gossip, or to an innocuous uncle, and it is of such a passion, rashly nurtured under this protection of an improbability, that I propose to tell the ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

... in the palace of the latter, nor even smokes a pipe there, always asserting that whatever the Emir possesses has been unlawfully obtained. There are different degrees of Akal, and women are also admitted into the order, a privilege which many avail themselves of, from parsimony, as they are thus exempted from wearing the expensive head-dress and rich silks ...

— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... could be scared into paying the rulers immense sums of money for the privilege of being left alone. They encouraged their naval officers to capture American vessels, and when we sent commissioners to France to protest they were coolly told that outrages upon our commerce would not be stopped ...

— Dewey and Other Naval Commanders • Edward S. Ellis

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