enfranchise

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To grant the franchise to an entity.
2. verb To grant the privilege of voting to a person or group of people.
3. verb To grant municipal or parliamentary rights to an entity such as a city or constituency.
4. verb To grant freedom from slavery, duty or servitude.
5. verb to convert a copyhold estate into a freehold estate

Similar words

affranchise empower enfranchize infranchise franchise admit enfeoff octroy invest authorize

Often followed by

the women all them a blacks and black their

Word family

enfranchised enfranchisement enfranchisements enfranchises enfranchising