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enˈfranchising, vbl. n. [f. enfranchise v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb enfranchise, in its various senses.
1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 42 b, The Lorde maye make manumission and infraunchissinge to his villaine. 1600Holland Livy 870 (R.) The multitude, so augmented by the enfranchising of slaves. 1688Addr. fr. Totness in Lond. Gaz. No. 2347/1 Your most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence, for the enfranchizing of Conscience. 1787T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 92 The enfranchising the port of Honfleur at the mouth of the Seine. |