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enfranchisement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun enfranchisement has 3 senses
- enfranchisement(n = noun.state) Array - freedom from political subjugation or servitude; Array is a kind of freedom
- enfranchisement(n = noun.attribute) franchise - a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote); Array is a kind of legal right
- enfranchisement(n = noun.act) certification - the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on; Array is a kind of authorisation, authorization, empowerment
Derived form verb enfranchise1
has particulars: right to vote, suffrage, vote
Derived form verb enfranchise2
has particulars: accreditation
Antonym: disenfranchisement
CIDE DICTIONARY
enfranchisement, n.
- Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. [1913 Webster]
Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.
ROGET THESAURUS
enfranchisement
Freedom
N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.Liberation
N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.
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