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Privilege vs Burghership - What's the difference?

privilege | burghership |

As nouns the difference between privilege and burghership

is that privilege is while burghership is the state of being a burgher; citizenship.

privilege

English

(Webster 1913) (wikipedia privilege)

Alternative forms

* priviledg (obsolete) * priviledge (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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; preferential treatment.
    • All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege ?
  • The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
    • In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege .
  • (legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
    • ''Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege .
  • (finance) A call, put, spread, or other option.
  • (computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users; permission.

    • Synonyms

    * prerogative, immunity, freelage, franchise, right, claim, liberty, advantage, foredeal

    Derived terms

    * cisprivilege

    Verb

    (privileg)
  • (archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
  • (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

    • Related terms

    * allege ----

    burghership

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being a burgher; citizenship.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Josephine Elizabeth Butler, title=Native Races and the War, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership . }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=1902 , month= , first= , last= , author=John Fiske , coauthors= , title=The Federal Unioin , volume= , issue= , page= , magazine=Harpers , publisher= , issn= citation , passage=In no case does citizenship, or burghership , appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=John Addington Symonds, title=Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Various, title=The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="All coloured people are excluded from this provision , and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership ...." }}
  • The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.