deprivilege
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deprivilege (third-person singular simple present deprivileges, present participle deprivileging, simple past and past participle deprivileged)
- (transitive) To strip of privilege.
- 1995, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood, page 13:
- 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.