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verbdeprivilege (third-person singular simple present deprivileges, present participle deprivileging, simple past and past participle deprivileged)
present singular third person deprivileges · participle present deprivileging · participle past deprivileged · past deprivileged
- transitiveTo 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
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deprivilege. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deprivilege
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“deprivilege.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deprivilege. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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