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enfranchisement|ɛnˈfrɑːntʃɪzmənt, -ˈfræn-|
Also 6–7 in-.
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
The action of enfranchising; the state or fact of being enfranchised.
1. Liberation from imprisonment, servitude, or political subjection. Also fig.
1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 52 My selfe and them.. heartily request Th'infranchisement of Arthur. 1601― Jul. C. iii. i. 81 Cry out Liberty, Freedome, and Enfranchisement. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law vi. 30 An instrument of manumission, which is an evidence of my enfranchisement. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 147 He hath procured an absolute enfranchisement from hell. 1693Dryden Persius Sat. iii. (R.), False enfranchisement with ease is found. 1848tr. Mariotti's Italy II. i. 7 The enfranchisement of Italy formed the text of all their proclamations. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxviii, He had commenced the legal formalities for his enfranchisement. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 4 The enfranchisement of the individual from bondage to a collective religious tradition that had lost its virtue.
2. a. Admission to the ‘freedom’ of a city, borough, or corporation, or to the citizenship of a state; admission to political rights, now esp. to the electoral franchise. b. The conferring of privileges (now chiefly the right of parliamentary representation) upon a town.
1628Coke On Litt. i. 137 b, Enfranchisement..the incorporating of a man to bee free of a Company or Body Politique. 1630Wadsworth Sp. Pilgr. viii. 83 His..Maiestie..would confirme vnto me my Patent of Infranchisement. 1654W. Mountague Devout Ess. ii. i. §3 (R.), The amplitude and infranchisement of humane reason cannot be said properly to be impair'd by these limits. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Acts xvi. 37 Paul was a Roman by enfranchisment. 1753W. Melmoth Cicero iii. xxiv. (R.), Certain cities..of which he is desirous to procure the enfranchisement. 1794S. Williams Vermont 232 The same privileges, immunities, and enfranchisements. 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 13 It was not enfranchisement that they wanted, it was simply military protection.
3. The action of making lands freehold.
1876Digby Real Prop. x. 396 Enfranchisement..consists in the conveyance of the freehold by the lord to his copyhold tenant. |