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deprivileging

deprivileging is the present participle and gerund of deprivilege.

Meaning of deprivilege

Verb

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

  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

Questions about deprivileging

What is deprivileging the present participle and gerund of?
Deprivileging is the present participle and gerund of deprivilege.

Words near deprivileging in the dictionary

  1. deprivers
  2. deprives
  3. deprivilege
  4. deprivileged
  5. deprivileges
  6. deprivileging
  7. depriving
  8. deproblematization
  9. deproblematize
  10. deproblematized
  11. deproblematizes

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