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So thank you to my friend on TikTok who told me to look into this, because the etymology of “Prestige” blew my mind. It is: "conjuring tricks" / "illusion"—that’s right. And then in the 19th/20th-century, it changed mean “having a dazzling influence,” so you think about a prestigious university, degree, institution, person, and the etymology …
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