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disfranchisement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | discontinuance, discontinuation |
| Derivation | disfranchise |
Examples of disfranchisement
disfranchisement
Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs.
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The disfranchisement lasted well into the later decades of the 20th century.
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This rural v. urban split went beyond the related fact of racial and class disfranchisement.
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The impact of disfranchisement is illustrated by the case of Alabama.
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Because of disfranchisement, there were no black representatives from the South in Congress.
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Feminists tend to blame the disfranchisement of Africa's women on the slave trade and western colonialism.
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In 1832 the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.
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The NAACP began to lead lawsuits targeting disfranchisement and racial segregation early in its history.
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Documents Booker T. Washington's secret financing and directing of litigation against segregation and disfranchisement.
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- The discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
- (disfranchised) disenfranchised: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
