enfranchise
verb (used with object)
to admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
unenfranchised
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a word derived from
enfranchise.
Example Sentences
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Normally, students are willing to remain unenfranchised and even uninformed, but they are morally outraged to find no sympathy for full discussion on an issue that so directly affects their nonacademic lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Reform Act of 1832 had extended the British franchise, but the majority had still no votes; and the immigrants belonged to the unenfranchised classes.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
One by one classes of men have been granted the vote until women are the only remaining unenfranchised class.
From Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment by Carrie Chapman Catt
Although, of course, as yet unenfranchised, they took as a rule a keener interest in political matters—meaning thereby the one absorbing question of the Union—than their sex in other parts of the United Kingdom.
From Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald John McNeill
Yet to the middle-class England of his own time, that unenfranchised England which had little representation in Parliament, he was a voice, an inspiration, and a tower of strength.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
