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disfranchisement|dɪsˈfrɑːntʃɪzmənt, -æ-|
[f. prec. + -ment: cf. the parallel franchisement, af-, en-franchisement.]
The action of disfranchising or fact of being disfranchised; deprivation of the privileges of a free citizen, especially of that of voting at the election of members of the legislature.
1623Cockeram, Disfranchisement, a taking away of ones freedome. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 50 Such usurpations are the..disfranchisements of Freedome. 1766Sir J. Burrow Reports I. 525 (Jod.) In Yates's case it is said there must be a custom, or a statute to warrant disfranchisement. 1825Syd. Smith Sp. Wks. 1859 II. 211/2 These very same politicians are now looking in an agony of terror at the disfranchisement of Corporations containing twenty or thirty persons, sold to their representatives. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. ii. 33 The revenge taken..was no less than the complete disfranchisement of the Florentine nobility. |