Deprivilege

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To strip of privilege. transitive

    "If literacy deprivileges the orality of language, literacy in English, in this context, deprivileges not only Jamaican but the orthography that revalorises the language as autonomous system."

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"If literacy deprivileges the orality of language, literacy in English, in this context, deprivileges not only Jamaican but the orthography that revalorises the language as autonomous system."

Etymology

From de- + privilege.

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