enfranchise
verb (used with object)
to admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
have enfranchised
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present perfectof enfranchise.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It should have enfranchised about 1.4 million people.
From Slate ● May 26, 2020
And these fluctuations of taste must become more frequent in the present age, where mankind have enfranchised themselves from the blind obedience to the rules of antiquity in perhaps every science, but that of architecture.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Cleisthenes may have enfranchised aliens and slaves, but it seems certain that he must have dealt with these free Athenians who had lost their rights.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
Had this been their design, they must have enfranchised both Indians and Africans, as both were within the territory over which they exercised jurisdiction.
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
Five western States and the Territory of Alaska have followed the example of the four former equal suffrage States and have enfranchised their women.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
