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enfranchise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | affranchise |
| Type of | liberate, set free |
| Derivation | enfranchisement |
Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century.
Examples of enfranchise
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In later centuries the reigning monarch decided which settlements to enfranchise.
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On February 24th the Senate voted to begin debate on a bill to enfranchise Washingtonians.
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Last week Lyndon Johnson moved to enfranchise all the 10 million Americans between 18 and 21.
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Prop. 16 doesn't deal with taxes nor does it enfranchise anyone.
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A slave could also be sold fictitiously to a sanctuary, from where a god could enfranchise him.
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Tensas was hence the last of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes to enfranchise African-Americans.
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What is needed is to enfranchise the workplace through the introduction of industrial democracy.
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Nor did impeding markets for final goods to the planning system enfranchise consumers in meaningful ways.
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Settlers have often pushed to annex the Palestinian territories but almost never to enfranchise Palestinians.
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- Affranchise: grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude; "Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century"
- Grant voting rights
- (enfranchised) endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
- (enfranchisement) certification: the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on
- Suffrage, political franchise, or simply the franchise is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. ...
- To grant the franchise to an entity. Generally meaning to grant the privilege of voting to a person
- (enfranchisement) The act of enfranchising; The release from slavery; The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
- (enfranchised) refers to reforms giving peasants legal ownership of the land they had used before but which had belonged to their lords, i. e., releasing them from serfdom. In the Kingdom of Poland enfranchisement was put into effect in 1863 and 1864.
- (Enfranchisement) This occurs when a leaseholder buys the freehold of the property the leaseholder is leasing.
