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/ɛnfrˈæntʃˌaɪzd/ Listen

verb

Enfranchise v. t. (past & past part. enfranchised; pres. part. enfranchising)

To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.

To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman; to give the right to vote.

To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.

adjective

enfranchised adj. Endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote.. Antonym: disenfranchised.

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Etymology of 'Enfranchised'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enfranchised" Quotes from Famous Books

... the world might almost be summed up in the phrase "progressive enfranchisement." But these are the desires of a closing phase in political history. The new discords go deeper than that. The new situation which confronts our Liberal intelligence is the discontent of the enfranchised, the contempt and hostility of the voters for their elected delegates ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... 1760, slavery existed in that country. There were not only Panis[9] or Indian Slaves, but also Negro slaves. These were not enfranchised by the conqueror, but retained their servile status. When the united empire loyalists came to this northern land after the acknowledgment by Britain of the independence of the revolted colonies, some of ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... been left out, or indistinctly written, and the law means "all those who had been condemned on the charges which now are judged by the court of the Areopagus, the Ephetai, or the Prytanies, when this law was made, must remain disfranchised, though the others become enfranchised?" Of these explanations the reader himself must consider ...

— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

... object in this lecture to present the condition of woman under the influences of Paganism, before Christianity enfranchised and elevated her. As a type of the Pagan woman I select Cleopatra, partly because she was famous, and partly because she possessed traits and accomplishments which made her interesting in spite of the vices which degraded her. She was a queen, ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord

... They thrust the enfranchised African from their public tables—born beneath their own skies, a native of their own soil, a free citizen by their own Declaration of Independence; yet exclaim, in the face of this black injustice—"Our people enjoy equal rights." Alas! for Columbia's sable sons! Where is ...

— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

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