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Definition of Prerogative
Prerogative

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.

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Prerogative Quotations

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi

The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
Shannen Doherty

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

Prerogative Translations

prerogative in German is Vorrecht
prerogative in Spanish is prerrogativa

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