enfranchise
verb (used with object)
to admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
enfranchised
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past participleof enfranchise.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof enfranchise.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
enfranchiseverb (used with object)to admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
Example Sentences
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Douglass may not have held a role as a judge, legislator, or even enfranchised citizen, yet he nonetheless played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s understanding of equal citizenship in the Civil War era.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Chute writes about predatory capitalism from the vantage point of the Mainers who are the least enfranchised and most abandoned, “stressed to the breaking point,” she has written.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
But the Electoral Commission says only one in five newly enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds registered to vote ahead of May's local elections.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2022
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed the equal citizenship of Black people and enfranchised Black men.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021
The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women, but some states quickly moved to deny nonwhite women—and men—the right to vote.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
