Enfranchisement: Definition and part of speech

Enfranchisement

  1. n. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
  2. n. Releasing from slavery or custody.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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