enfranchisement

Noun

Meaning

Releasing from slavery or custody.

Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.

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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. Margaret Fuller

The increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews. Daniel Pipes

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. Anna Howard Shaw

Even though Lincoln won a resounding victory at the polls in his re-election campaign in November 1864, the Democratic opposition did not, by any means, disappear, and much of it remained militantly hostile to black enfranchisement and black equality, North as well as South. Allen C. Guelzo

Ernestine Rose began lecturing in 1836 to groups of women on the subject of the "Science of Government" which included the enfranchisement of women. Source: Internet

It had long been the expectation that when a non-Roman acquired citizenship he, as part of his enfranchisement, took on a Roman name. Source: Internet

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