Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of a privilege.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To deprive of a privilege or privileges.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
deprive of aprivilege or privileges.
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Examples
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How can privilege make sense, but disprivilege make no sense?
Duke Rape Case: Regarding “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” 2006
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That there is danger for everyone is a disprivilege for everyone.
Duke Rape Case: Regarding “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” 2006
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Blacks are overrepresented, and feminists recognise the colour aspect of disprivilege, but they are blind to the overwhelming degree to which men are victimised and disprivileged by the military.
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Yet feminists refuse to acknowledge these kinds of disprivilege that men face.
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That is, all societies, once they move from the level of hunting and gathering to that of Command, create categories of privilege and disprivilege, ranging from aristocracy to slavery, from class to caste, from the rights of property to the disadvantages of penury.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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That is, all societies, once they move from the level of hunting and gathering to that of Command, create categories of privilege and disprivilege, ranging from aristocracy to slavery, from class to caste, from the rights of property to the disadvantages of penury.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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I realise that non-whites don’t get to enjoy that right as much as whites, and that’s a disprivilege, not merely wrt whites.
Duke Rape Case: Regarding “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” 2006
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Women’s disprivilege in the workplace is evidenced by the pay gap.
Duke Rape Case: Regarding “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” 2006
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That you don’t enjoy that right is a disprivilege for you, not a privilege for me.
Duke Rape Case: Regarding “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” 2006
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