Example Sentences

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The crowd, it was observed, was composed largely of libertini and of provincials whom Caesar had enfranchised.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

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 Milman, Henry Hart

The effect of these provisions was to enfranchise the urban working population, even as the act of 1832 had enfranchised principally the urban middle class.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin

Since the fourteenth amendment had enfranchised woman as well as the black man, she had the necessary qualifications of an elector.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The Countess Jane had enfranchised all those belonging to her as early as 1222.

From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Grattan, Thomas Colley