disfranchise
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of disfranchise
A late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at dis- 1, franchise
Example Sentences
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Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2016
Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?'
From Time Magazine Archive
Whom he can and will support Senator Johnson did not say but few of his followers expected him to disfranchise himself election day.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
If society should disfranchise individuals convicted of infamous crimes, would this be an invasion of natural right?
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Soumahoro says with a smile that he will have the "best suntan" in parliament, but is adamant that he intends to speak for the poor and disfranchised, regardless of their colour.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2022
By 1846, residents of Alexandria had grown irritated over being disfranchised, and political control of that area returned to Virginia.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2019
This both encouraged a more egalitarian discourse and made it possible for the voices of the previously disfranchised to be heard.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2018
Their clients were the poor, the lowly, the disfranchised, the unprivileged, against whom the grandeurs of the world lifted a heavy hand.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
But it is difficult to fathom the logic of disfranchising citizens because they were poorly served by politically controlled schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2016
It’s reasonable to conclude, then, that the Harsanyi plan would have the intended effect of disfranchising a substantial minority of eligible citizens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2016
A clause had been inserted in the Franchise bill disfranchising any man who had been in receipt of parish medical aid for himself or family.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Against that foundation the Bolsheviki hurled their destructive power, creating a discriminating class suffrage, disfranchising a great part of the Russian people—not merely the bourgeoisie, but a considerable part of the working class itself.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
As for disfranchising the borough, I cannot say that I regard it in the least.
From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
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