deprivilege en · VERB
Etymology
From de- + privilege.
Meanings
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(transitive) To strip of privilege.
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.
1995, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood, page 13:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| deprivileges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| deprivileging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| deprivileged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| deprivileged | Tense=Past | lexicographic |