Privilege, subst. 1) a particular right or immunity: Mids. III, 2, 79 (cf. II, 1, 220). All's II, 3, 220. IV, 5, 96. Wint. III, 2, 104. John IV, 3, 32. R2 II, 1, 116. H4A III, 2, 86. V, 2, 18. H6A V, 4, 61. R3 III, 1, 41. R3 III, 1, 41 Troil. III, 2, 136. Cor. I, 10, 23. V, 3, 25. Tit. IV, 4, 57. Lr. II, 2, 76. V, 3, 129. on one's p. == confiding or presuming on a particular right: LLL IV, 2, 162. H6A II, 4, 86. under p., in the same sense, Ado V, 1, 60. to bear a p. John 1, 261. Tit. IV, 2, 116.
2) advantage, favourable circumstance: “take heed of this large p.” Sonn. 95, 13. “think my patience, more than thy desert, is p. for thy departure hence,” Gent. III, 1, 160. “your virtue is my p.” Mids. II, 1, 220 (or == your virtue is my immunity from the common laws of decency?). “compassion on the king commands me stoop, or I would see his heart out, ere the priest should ever get that p. of me,” H6A III, 1, 121.
3) right in general: “have you nuns no farther --s?” Meas. I, 4, 1. “I beg the ancient p. of Athens, as she is mine, I may dispose of her,” Mids. I, 1, 41. “where no venom else but only they hath p. to live,” R2 II, 1, 158. “retain but p. of a private man,” H6A V, 4, 136.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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