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Enfranchise   /ɪnfrˈæntʃˌaɪz/   Listen
Enfranchise

verb
(past & past part. enfranchised; pres. part. enfranchising)
1.
Grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude.  Synonym: affranchise.
2.
Grant voting rights.



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"Enfranchise" Quotes from Famous Books



... I do not think it will go on long enough to reach such depths as that; and yet I should be hypocritical if I were to say that I thought that the change in the basis of society, which would enfranchise labour and make men practically equal in condition, would lead us by a short road to the splendid new birth of art which I have mentioned, though I feel quite certain that it would not leave what we now call art untouched, since the aims of that revolution do include the aims of art—viz., ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris



Words linked to "Enfranchise" :   grant, accord, liberate, set free, allot, disenfranchise



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