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enfranchise - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'enfranchise' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Enfranchise [ v. t.]
- 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 receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.

Meaning of 'enfranchise' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . enfranchise [ v]
Meaning (1):
- grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
Example in sentence:
  • Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century

Nearby Words:

enfamish enfect enfeeble enfeebled enfeeblement enfeebler enfeebling enfeeblish enfeloned enfeoff

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