Prerogative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREROGATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege
• a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class
• the right of the sovereign, which in British law is theoretically subject to no restriction.
• a faculty or property distinguishing a person or class
• An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
• Precedence; preeminence; first rank.
• a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
ADJECTIVE:
• arising out of or held by prerogative
• arising from the prerogative of the Crown (usually delegated to the government or the judiciary) and based in common law rather than statutory law
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege; as; one belonging to an office or an official body; one belonging to a person, group, or class of individuals; one possessed by a nation as an attribute of sovereignty; the discretionary power inhering in the British Crown

Words related to PREROGATIVE

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Words that contain PREROGATIVE

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How to use PREROGATIVE in a sentence

• The inhabitants of Europe were struck dumb with amazement when they witnessed this exercise of papal prerogative.
• The prerogative of destruction belongs solely to the creator of all that lives.
• His political antagonist did not, however, fail to awaken its memory, when Dryden became a decided advocate for the royal prerogative, and the hereditary right of the Stuarts.
• By the middle of the twelfth century it was law in England that to it belonged this prerogative.
• The late Queen Anne, who was a very good woman, was always fond of prerogative.
• To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man.
• Call to mind the meaning of the Greek word which expresses this special prerogative of Man over the feeble intelligence of the lower animals.
• To Arnold on Lake Champlain, to DeGrasse at Yorktown, fell the privilege of exercising that prerogative at the two great decisive moments of the War.
• To him the re-establishment of order meant the restoration of the prerogative.
• Wife-beating is the masculine prerogative of matrimony.
• Besides, an example must be made, and in the rough life we led the administration of justice was the prerogative of the captain alone.
• The king himself made the journey in the waggon drawn by oxen, which formed his rude prerogative.
• He held it to be the glory and adornment of all true religion, and the special prerogative of Christianity.
• That authority has the prerogative of an indirect jurisdiction on subject-matters which lie beyond its own proper limits, and it most reasonably has such a jurisdiction.
• The turbulent government of England, ever fluctuating between privilege and prerogative, would afford a variety of precedents, which might be pleaded on both sides.
• There were some other topics in favor of prerogative, still more extravagant, advanced in the house this parliament.
• Cowell, who had magnified the prerogative in words too intelligible, fell this session under the indignation of the commons.
• But the greatest of all his works was his maintenance of peace, during the whole period of his reign, no less than of his royal prerogative.
• There is neither rank, nor station, nor prerogative, in the republic of the grave.
• Masonry denies the right of any man to assume the prerogative of Deity, 161-u.
• Finally, what are the mental powers which he reserves as the especial prerogative of man? They are two.
• His protest had its effect and he was informed that it was entirely within his prerogative to lead the expedition southward himself.
• The prerogative of justice is to see that the law is enforced.
• He denied to the Assembly even the right of discussing this matter which belonged to the prerogative of the King.
• She is trained to expect sympathy, and learns that to weep is her prerogative.
• The function and prerogative of making laws belonged to the burghers.
• Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Prerogative Court of Lichfield, whose character, long after his decease, Dr.
• Courage is by no means the prerogative of the soldier or of man.
• Chronic imflammations are a prerogative of the old as compared with the young, of the weak rather than the strong.
• It is the reality as contrasted with the story that is the prerogative of the Catholic child.
• Clever as the nurse was about handling the twins, she could not manage even the pretense to that professional superiority which is the prerogative of nurses toward mothers.

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