Meaning & use
Enfranchised
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Given the right to vote or other privileges of full citizenship; freed from restriction or servitude.
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Women in the United States were enfranchised nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Freed slaves were legally enfranchised but still faced widespread efforts to suppress their votes.
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Its opposite, 'disenfranchised,' is now more commonly used, especially in discussions of voting rights and social exclusion.
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