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Privileged

adjective

Blessed with privileges.

Not subject to usual rules or penalties.

Confined to an exclusive group. Synonyms: inner, inside. "Inside information" , "Privileged information"

Privilege

verb

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

Bestow a privilege upon. Synonyms: favor, favour.

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"Privileged" Quotes from Famous Books

... panegyrist of physical perfection, "extends its prestige to posterity itself, and attaches a charm for centuries to the name alone of the privileged creatures upon whom it has pleased heaven to bestow it." Beauty has also its epochs. It does not belong to all men and to all ages to enjoy it in its exquisite perfection. As there are fashions which spoil it, ...

— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... soul. All this has endured since the days of St. Patrick, who so ordained it. The Land of Promise is more marvellous still; there an eternal day reigns; all the plants have flowers, all the trees bear fruits. Some privileged men alone have visited it. On their return a perfume is perceived to come from them, which their ...

— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

... my friend drove was a magnificent 22-horse Daimler, built to his own specification and capable of doing considerably more than any car I had hitherto been privileged to ride upon. Of course while passing through the streets there was little chance of exhibiting its capabilities. Yet even there, the way the car glided in and out of the traffic, delicately responsive to the slightest touch ...

— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster

... peace with himself and the world—that is, so much of the world as he acknowledged. Beyond the community of his own sect, and a few personal friends who were privileged to live on its borders, he neither knew nor cared to know much more of the human race than if it belonged to a planet farther from the sun. In the discipline of the Friends he was perfect; he was privileged to sit on the high seats, with ...

— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor

... Teutons or Italians, in their religious systems. Long before the Romans came in contact with them the magic science is said to have been developed, and the priests, like those of India or Egypt, communicated the mysteries only to a privileged few, with circumstances of profound secrecy. Such was the excellence of the magic science of the British Druids, that Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxx.) was induced to suppose that the Magi of Persia must have derived their system from Britain. ...

— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams

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