enfranchise
verb (used with object)
to admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
enfranchises
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present tense formof enfranchise (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“What I don’t want to see is a system that enfranchises some people and not others and we need the research to really tell what happened here,” Mr. de Blasio said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021
Pass another voting rights act that enfranchises as many Americans as possible.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
“A historical atlas enfranchises the whole nation,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2013
The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
