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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

deprivilege en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + privilege.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
deprivileges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
deprivileging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deprivileged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deprivileged Tense=Past lexicographic