ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: VERB
- Grant voting rights
- To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
- Grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
- Grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
- To free from obligation or service.
ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
- To free, as from bondage.
- To bestow a franchise on.
- To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman; to give the right to vote.
- To receive as denizens; to naturalize.
- To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
- To make free; to enfranchise.
ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- As from slavery or servitude
- Grant freedom to
- The feudal law, to free from the obligations of feudal tenure, as to convert a copyhold estate into a freehold.
- To set free; liberate, as from slavery; hence, to free or release from custody, bad habits, or any restraint.
- To make free of a state, city, or corporation; admit to the privileges of a freeman or citizen; admit to citizenship.
- Specifically To confer the electoral franchise upon; admit to the right of voting or taking part in public elections: as, to enfranchise a class of people; to enfranchise (in Great Britain) a borough or a university.
- Synonyms Manumit, Liberate, etc. See emancipate.
- To endenizen; naturalize.
- As from slavery or servitude
- Grant freedom to
- To make free; enfranchise.
ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: RELATED WORDS
- Outvote, Reapportion, Deprive, Ghettoize, Mobilize, Subjugate, Enslave, Marginalize, Oppress, Liberate, Emancipate, Disenfranchise, Disfranchise, Empower, Affranchise
- Hard labor, Assiento, Emancipate, Enserf, Set free, Unimprisoned, Beslave, Manumitter, Liberate, Mancipation, Serfage, Redemptioner, Mancipate, Servitude, Enfranchise
ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Constitutionalize, Disempower, Enact, Deprive, Ghettoize, Subjugate, Enslave, Marginalize, Oppress, Liberate, Emancipate, Disenfranchise, Disfranchise, Empower, Affranchise
- Hard labor, Assiento, Emancipate, Enserf, Set free, Unimprisoned, Beslave, Manumitter, Liberate, Mancipation, Serfage, Redemptioner, Mancipate, Servitude, Enfranchise
ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- But Borah only supported women voting on a statestate basis because he did not want to enfranchise black womenin the South.
- The resolution attempts to enfranchise voters serving as military personnel overseas at the time of an election.
- Suffrage Association petitioned the Rhode Island legislature to submit a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women.
- Fourteenth Amendment might enfranchise the freedmen, he was unusually calm about the fact.
- Struggles to enfranchise the Classes subjected to Dues.
- Why would you worry about changes in election procedures that are going to enfranchise voters?
- First and only debate on 16th Amend, to enfranchise women, 87 et seq.
- In each, the territorial legislature had voted to enfranchise women.
- He also feels aggrieved about not being able to enfranchise.
- ANT: Aggravate, excite, foster, perpetuate, exempt, enfranchise, disengage, extricate, exonerate.
- N/A
ENFRANCHISE vs AFFRANCHISE: QUESTIONS
- Can a right to enfranchise company purchase a freehold property?
- Can deliberative democracy help enfranchise minorities?
- N/A