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Definition
a right reserved exclusively for a particular person or group
- As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman — her legitimate appanage and heritage!Chapter 17 (91% in)
- This afternoon, instead of dreaming of Deepden, I was wondering how a man who wished to do right could act so unjustly and unwisely as Charles the First sometimes did; and I thought what a pity it was that, with his integrity and conscientiousness, he could see no farther than the prerogatives of the crown.Chapter 6 (68% in)
There are no more uses of "prerogative" in Jane Eyre.
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