disfranchisementn.
/dɪsˈfrɑːntʃɪzmənt//dɪsˈfrantʃɪzmənt/ 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.
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society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [noun] > deprivation of rights of citizen
disfranchisement1623
disfranchising1646
unnaturalizing1647
undenizing1716
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Disfranchisement, a taking away of ones freedome.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 47 Such usurpations..are the..disfranchisements of Freedome.
1766 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 1 525 In Yates's case it is said there must be a custom, or a statute to warrant disfranchisement.
1825 S. Smith Speeches in 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.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) ii. 33 The revenge taken..was no less than the complete disfranchisement of the Florentine nobility.
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