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
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
It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
On the plus side, he commends the nation’s eventual extension of political rights to far more people than the landholding white male minority enfranchised in the Revolutionary era.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
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
