enfranchisementn.
/ɛnˈfrɑːntʃɪzmənt//ɛnˈfrantʃɪzmənt/ The action of enfranchising; the state or fact of being enfranchised.
1. Liberation from imprisonment, servitude, or political subjection. Also figurative.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun]
liberation?a1475
remission?a1475
freeing1492
redeliverya1513
solutiona1513
enfranchising1528
assertion1552
franchising1552
franchisement1562
affranchisement1608
enfranchisementa1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 80 Cry out Liberty, Freedome, and Enfranchisement . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 52 My selfe and them..heartily request Th'infranchisement of Arthur. View more context for this quotation
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 35 An instrument of manumission, which is an evidence of my enfranchisement.
1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 95 He hath procured an absolute enfranchisement from hell.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 64 False Enfranchisement, with ease is found.
1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. i. 7 The enfranchisement of Italy formed the text of all their proclamations.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxviii. 126 He had commenced the legal formalities for his enfranchisement.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 4 The enfranchisement of the individual from bondage to a collective religious tradition that had lost its virtue.
2.
a. Admission to the ‘freedom’ of a city, borough, or corporation, or to the citizenship of a state; admission to political rights, now esp. to the electoral franchise.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen > granting of political rights or privileges
enfranchisement1628
enfranchising1787
effranchisement1795
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. 137 b Enfranchisement..the incorporating of a man to bee free of a Company or Body Politique.
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) viii. 83 His..Maiestie..would confirme vnto me my Patent of Infranchisement.
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. i. §3 (R.) The amplitude and infranchisement of humane reason cannot be said properly to be impair'd by these limits.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Acts xvi. 37 Paul was a Roman by enfranchisment.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 232 The same privileges, immunities, and enfranchisements.
1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 13 It was not enfranchisement that they wanted, it was simply military protection.
b. The conferring of privileges (now chiefly the right of parliamentary representation) upon a town.
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1753 W. Melmoth tr. Cicero Lett. iii. xxiv. (R.) Certain cities..of which he is desirous to procure the enfranchisement.
3. The action of making lands freehold.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > freehold > making freehold
enfranchisement1875
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. x. 349 Enfranchisement..consists in the conveyance of the freehold by the lord to his copyhold tenant.
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