deprivilege

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ privilege.

Verb

deprivilege (third-person singular simple present deprivileges, present participle deprivileging, simple past and past participle deprivileged)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• pediveliger