Prerogative
[prɪ'rɒgətɪv]
Definition
(noun.) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); 'suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males'.
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Definition
(n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
(n.) Precedence; preeminence; first rank.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Privilege, immunity, right, liberty, franchise, advantage.
Typist: Robbie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Eight, privilege, immunity
ANT:Disqualification, disfranchisement
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Definition
n. a peculiar privilege shared by no other: a right arising out of one's rank position or nature.—adj. arising out of or held by prerogative.—v.t. to endow with a prerogative.—adj. Prerog′atived (Shak.) having a prerogative or exclusive privilege.—adv. Prerog′atively by prerogative or exclusive privilege.—Prerogative court formerly a court having jurisdiction over testamentary matters.—Royal prerogative the rights which a sovereign has by right of office which are different in different countries.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A sovereign's right to do wrong.
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Examples
- And what's the prerogative of a woman, in the name of Goodness? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If an animal die on the plain the polyborus has prerogative of feeding first, and is followed by the turkey buzzard and the gallinazo. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Accordingly, he filled those places with such as prostituted their professions to his notions of prerogative. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- To formulate new truths in the world of ideas is the prerogative o f minds gifted with exceptional reason. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The king behaved with a clumsy stupidity, and with that disregard for others which is the prerogative of kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He considered it the principle of a gentleman to take things as he found them; and he had no doubt the Prerogative Office would last our time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman--her legitimate appanage and heritage! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hence the truly human end is the fullest possible of this distinctive human prerogative. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These women at least shall continue to respect the prerogative. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We sometimes talk as if original research were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The prerogative of a man is to command. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- St Dunstan knew, as well as any one, the prerogatives of a jovial friar. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I believe duelling is one of his Majesty's most undoubted prerogatives, Mr. Jinks? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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