Privilege vs Sortilege - What's the difference?
privilege | sortilege |
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.
The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
(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.
(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.
Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
*:We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 115:
*:Orthodox believers were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
* 2001 , (JT Leroy), Sarah :
*:‘Too much evil sortilege ,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.
As nouns the difference between privilege and sortilege
is that privilege is while sortilege is magic spell, sorcery, witchcraft.privilege
Alternative forms
* priviledg (obsolete) * priviledge (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege ?
- In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege .
- ''Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege .