affranchise
verb (used with object)
to free from a state of dependence, servitude, or obligation.
affranchisement
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a word derived from
affranchise.
Example Sentences
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We can even now describe this affranchisement, so well is the American method known.
From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth
The ancients, then, had a very simple means of avoiding slavery and its evil consequences, which was that of affranchisement; and they succeeded as soon as they adopted this measure generally.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
If affranchisement produced the destruction of planting in St. Domingo, we know now the reason.
From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth
The Affranchisement of Cities Developed Municipal Organization.—The effect of the affranchisement of cities was to develop an internal organization, usually on the representative plan.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
Then, after the substitution of the Rosa mystica for the mystic lily, tentatively there began an affranchisement of communes, of women and of thought.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
