What does "enfranchise" mean?
Enfranchise: To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
Additional senses
- 2.To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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