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/ɪnfrˈæntʃˌaɪz/ 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.

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Etymology of 'Enfranchise'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enfranchise" Quotes from Famous Books

... wish, or conceived the nature of a world in which all women were Miss Hominys. There is always a little difficulty in fancying the world other than we find it; but it is really worth a little trouble, before we enfranchise woman, to try to imagine the results of her enfranchisement, the Future of Woman. In the first place, it would amazingly reduce the variety of the world. As it is, we live in a double world, and enjoy the advantages of a ...

— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous

... Democratic—which because of its enfranchisement of wage-earning men has received their support for eighty years. After the Civil War, although the Republican party was in absolute control, amendments to the State constitutions for striking out the word "white," in order to enfranchise colored men, were defeated in one after another of the Northern States, even in Kansas, the most radical of them all in its anti-slavery sentiment. It finally became so evident that this concession would not be granted by the voters ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various