Meaning & use
Enfranchise
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To give someone the right to vote, or more broadly, to grant a person or group civil or political rights.
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The constitutional amendment enfranchised millions of previously excluded voters.
Reform movements sought to enfranchise women in the early twentieth century.
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Enfranchise originally meant 'to set free,' from Old French franchir; its modern sense narrowed mainly to the granting of voting rights.
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