Definition of Enfranchise. Meaning of Enfranchise. Synonyms of Enfranchise

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Definition of Enfranchise

Enfranchise
Enfranchise En*fran"chise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising.] [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.] 1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. --Bacon. 2. 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. 3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. --I. Watts.

Meaning of Enfranchise from wikipedia

- pay to elect officials, keeping impoverished people from being fully enfranchised. These laws were in effect in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa...
- The Women's Enfranchi****t Act, 1930, was an act of the Parliament of South Africa which granted white women aged 21 and older the right to vote and...
- The Gradual Enfranchi****t Act (French: Acte pourvoyant à l’éman****tion graduelle) was an 1869 act of the 1st Canadian Parliament of the Parliament...
- Collective enfranchi****t is a legal term in English property law used to describe a process whereby leaseholders of a block of flats of apartments can...
- hear disputes regarding leaseholds, including their service charges, enfranchi****t, and tenants' ****ociations. "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order...
- African Americans were fully enfranchised in practice throughout the United States by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction...
- the Indians into broader settler society, through enfranchi****t. The act's policies of enfranchi****t and individual allotment of land by the colonial...
- Rays enfranchised 1998 as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (team name changed in 2008) Toronto Blue Jays enfranchised 1977 Chicago White Sox enfranchised 1894...
- The Dominion Women's Enfranchi****t ****ociation (DWEA) was an organization founded by Dr. Emily Howard Stowe in 1889 to fight for the right of women...
- The Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchi****t (MPU) was a political society founded on 13 January 1910 in the Eustace Miles Restaurant in London...