enfranchise
verb (used with object)
to admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
had enfranchised
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past perfectof enfranchise.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The liberality of the Romans, and especially of Augustus, had enfranchised the maritime cities from the dominion of Sparta; and the continuance of the same benefit ennobled them with the title of Eleuthero, or Free-Laconians.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
The congress opened with a roll call of the suffrage victories and the responses showed the almost unbelievable record that twenty countries had enfranchised their women during the years of the war!
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
The hips were almost entirely unconfined; the Revolution had enfranchised the waists of its citoyennes.
From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson
In labouring to transfer power from the class which the Revolution had enfranchised to those which it had overthrown, Polignac and La Bourdonnaie would gladly have made terms with the working men.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
Mozey had enfranchised himself by sacrificing a few tufts of his woolly hair, but the task was not so easy for Tom.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
