Meaning & use
Disfranchised
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Deprived of a legal right, especially the right to vote.
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Poll taxes left many disfranchised for decades.
The reform aimed to restore voting rights to disfranchised citizens.
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An older variant of 'disenfranchised'; both forms are used interchangeably in legal and political writing.
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