Enfranchisement
[in'fræntʃizmənt]
Definition
(n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.
(n.) Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- Now because of the Union of the Parliaments, the enfranchisement of the English and Irish populations went on simultaneously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had proposed a general enfranchisement of the Italians, and he had foreshadowed not only another land law, but a general abolition of debts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The uneasiness of Italy next roused Scipio Africanus the Younger to propose the enfranchisement of all Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Catholic enfranchisement in England meant Catholic enfranchisement in Ireland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the Spartan state there had been enfranchisement of Helots and degradation of citizens under special circumstances. Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Fergus