Bible Dictionaries
Privilege

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.

(2):

(n.) See Call, Put, Spread, etc.

(3):

(v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.

(4):

(v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Privilege'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/privilege.html. 1828.