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
The same Legislature defeated a proposal to disfranchise for a term of three years men convicted of infamous crimes, and it voted to admit to suffrage men who did not pay their poll-tax.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
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
Two of the boroughs I hold will be disfranchised, in return for which I am to have money down.'
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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 bill was passed disfranchising all such persons as had voluntarily stayed in neighbourhoods occupied by the British troops; their offence was called misprision of treason.
From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John
I have prosecuted the Board of Inspectors for disfranchising me.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
The Constitution of Mississippi has served as the pattern for the disfranchising enactments of South Carolina and Louisiana.
From The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 by Love, John L.
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