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   enfranchise

   /ɪnˈfran(t)ʃʌɪz/

   verb

   • 1. give the right to vote to: "a proposal that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections" Similar give voting rights togive the vote togive suffrage togrant suffrage togrant franchise toOpposite disenfranchise
   • ▪ give (a town) the right to be represented in Parliament. historical
   • 2. free (a slave). historical Similar emancipateliberatefreeset freereleaseempowerunchainunyokeunfetterunshacklenaturalizegrant citizenship toconfer citizenship onhistorical:manumitrare:affranchisedisenthralcitizenizeOpposite enslave

   Word Origin late Middle English (formerly also as infranchise): from Old French enfranchiss-, lengthened stem of enfranchir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + franc, franche ‘free’.

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