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
It gave its assistance to the unenfranchised States and was ready to respond to any call from the national president.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
The rich and prosperous provinces beyond the Po remained unenfranchised, while the value of the franchise itself was daily diminishing as the Senate resumed its control over the initiative of legislation.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
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
This appears to be proved even by the increasingly rebellious movement among women, as unenfranchised people, excluded from citizenship and governed without consent.
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
