Definitions for enfranchise

enfranchise en·fran·chise

Spelling: [en-fran-chahyz]
IPA: /ɛnˈfræn tʃaɪz/

Enfranchise is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 867 anagrams from letters in enfranchise (aceefhinnrs).

Definitions for enfranchise

verb (used with object)

  1. to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
  2. to endow (a city, constituency, etc.) with municipal or parliamentary rights.
  3. to set free; liberate, as from slavery.

Origin of enfranchise

1505-15; Middle French, Old French enfranchiss- (long stem of enfranchir to free), equivalent to en- en-1 + franch- free (see frank

Examples for enfranchise

The first may free a man from himself, it may enfranchise him from egotism.

By enfranchising the women of this country, you enfranchise humanity.

"Death alone can enfranchise them from their servitude," has said Para-Brahma.

We are not asking Congress to enfranchise us, because it does not possess that power.

Were he to enfranchise them and pay them wages for work, they would get the wages but he would not get the work.

In 1891 a bill was presented to enfranchise women by statute.

He would support a bill to disfranchise Dudley, and support another to enfranchise Old Sarum.

The Mother Colony seems likely to be the next to enfranchise women.

You give to all who ask, and enfranchise all who serve you assiduously.

A bill to enfranchise widows and spinsters was pending in Parliament.

Word Value for enfranchise
Scrable

19

Words with friends

21

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