privilege
/ˈpɹɪv.ɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To prioritize.
He/she/it privileges · Past privileged · Past participle privileged · -ing form privileging
Verb forms
- Base form
- privilege
- He/she/it
- privileges
- Past
- privileged
- Past participle
- privileged
- -ing form
- privileging
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From seven o’clock in the morning a crowd was stationed at the iron gates, and an hour before the trial commenced the hall was full of the privileged.
Certainly a call to the visitors’ room had scarcely astonished Andrea less than themselves, for the wily youth, instead of making use of his privilege of waiting to be claimed on his entry into La Force, had maintained a rigid silence.
TEE KITES of olden times, as well as the Swans, had the privilege of song.
Her mother’s ungraciousness made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth’s mind; and she would, at times, have given anything to be privileged to tell him, that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family.
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