单词 | privileging |
释义 | privilegingn. 1. The action of endowing a person or thing with a privilege or privileges. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > privilege or exceptional right > action of investing with privileginga1400 franchising1552 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 25044 (MED) Cros it beres o mani thing, O cristen men þe priueleginge. 1948 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 18 Aug. 8/4 Communism lapsed into one-sidedness, Strasser said, by its ‘over-emphasis on the economic factor, conceived not as the attempt to create equality among men, but as the privileging of a single class.’ 1972 J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz Antioch v. 173 The privileging of the leading councillors made its way slowly and became definite only in 392. 2. The action of according high status, validity, or importance to a concept, viewpoint, etc., in comparison to others; an instance of this. Cf. privilege v. 4. ΚΠ 1973 New Literary Hist. 4 225 Because of a new confusion between the concept of word and voice, and a privileging of speech over writing, we find ourselves questioning again every theory that posits a more than heuristic ‘beginning’. 1975 M. Poster Existential Marxism Postwar France ii. 62 But, argued Lefebvre, Marx's privileging of technique derived from the actual situation during the industrial revolution. 1986 J. Stacey in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? xiii. 228 Friedan and Elshtain..interpret the feminist critique of a gendered division of labour as a phallocentric privileging of public life, careers, and male rationality. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 36/2 There is everywhere..a privileging of cheapskate emotion, childish resentment and surly suspicion against profundity of experience, education and sensibility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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