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/prˈɪvlədʒd/ /prˈɪvlɪdʒd/ /prˈɪvɪlədʒd/ /prˈɪvɪlɪdʒd/ Listen

verb

Privilege v. t. (past & past part. privileged; pres. part. privileging)

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 privilege dishonor in thy name."

To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver. "He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands."

adjective

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

Privileged communication. (Law)

(a)

A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers.

(b)

A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc.

Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent.

Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

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Etymology of 'Privileged'

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"Privileged" Quotes from Famous Books

... friend, Let me go with you, when you next attend; For though you've every detail at command, There's something must be lost at second hand. Then the man's look, his manner—these may seem Mere things of course, perhaps, in your esteem, So privileged as you are: for me, I feel An inborn thirst, a more than common zeal, Up to the distant river-head to mount, And quaff these ...

— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace

... place. The native language in this island is the Persian. I embarked at Ormuz for Goa in India, in a ship on board of which were fourscore horses. All merchants proceeding from Ormuz for Goa ought to go in ships carrying horses, because every ship carrying twenty horses or upwards is privileged from the payment of customs on all their other goods, whereas all ships having no horses have to pay eight per centum on ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr

... may know where your daughter is, and I may not. I may wish to tell you, and I may not. She may not wish me to. But unless you wish to talk with me in a civil way there is no need of our going on any further. You are privileged to do what you like. Won't you come up-stairs to my room? We can talk more ...

— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... for she was watching all the time. Genevieve put up her hand, drew out of pigeon-hole "S" another printed letter, and with a faint cry collapsed in a dead faint. At least so her condition was described to those few who were not privileged to be present. Ambulance classes had not been held in vain at York Hill, and in less time than it takes to tell Genevieve found herself on the sofa in the housekeeper's room, where she proceeded to indulge in an ...

— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett

... white apron, sometimes from the garden, in a blue one. She never looked at him while he read. To do so would have been lacking in respect for his work. It was on this that she must concentrate her whole mind, privileged auditor that she was. She sat looking straight before her, with her lips slightly compressed, and her hands folded on her lap. I used to wonder that there had been that first moment when I did not think her pretty. Her eyes were of a very light hazel, seeming ...

— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm

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