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ENTITLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Qualified for by right according to law
Example:
we are all entitled to equal protection under the law
Classified under:
Similar:
eligible (qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb entitle
Context examples:
She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But here, Elinor could neither wonder nor blame; and when she saw, as she assisted Marianne from the carriage, that she had been crying, she saw only an emotion too natural in itself to raise any thing less tender than pity, and in its unobtrusiveness entitled to praise.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded and grown to hate that the work of her destruction was yielded as a privilege to the one best entitled to it, but Lucy as we had seen her in her life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Little girl, here is a book entitled the 'Child's Guide,' read it with prayer, especially that part containing 'An account of the awfully sudden death of Martha G—, a naughty child addicted to falsehood and deceit.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And having dined, he sat down at his table-desk and completed before midnight an essay which he entitled "The Dignity of Usury."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
With him it is entirely a matter of feeling: he claims no merit in it; perhaps is entitled to none.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They were no more inclined than entitled to demand his money.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and never came back any more.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
