Definition of Disfranchising

1. Verb. (present participle of disfranchise) ¹

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Definition of Disfranchising

1. disfranchise [v] - See also: disfranchise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfranchising

disfleshing
disfluencies
disfluency
disforest
disforestation
disforestations
disform
disformed
disformities
disformity
disforms
disfranchise
disfranchised
disfranchises
disfranchising
disfrock
disfrocked
disfrocking
disfrocks
disfunction
disfunctions
disfurnish
disfurnished
disfurnishes
disfurnishing
disfurnishment
disfurnishments
disfurniture
disfurnitured

Literary usage of Disfranchising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electoral Reform in England and Wales: The Development and Operation of the by Charles Seymour (1915)
"... arguments — The disfranchising clauses — Schedule A — Schedule B — Character of the disfranchised boroughs — Difficulties in passing the disfranchising ..."

2. A History of Suffrage in the United States by Kirk Harold Porter (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII Disfranchising THE NEGRO The immediate results of negro suffrage were somewhat startling. Representative assemblies are not likely to be on a ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1860)
"... of their reasons for si-ceding from Ihe Ministry—Inclination of Public Opinion on the Ministerial Sill—The clause for disfranchising County Voters in. ..."

4. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"He opposes the bill for disfranchising Crick- lade. He brings down a censure on all law Lords. He opposes a ministerial address to the Crown. that the ..."

5. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"7, which is said to be the first The dis- disfranchising act to be found on the statute-books of Eng- land. This act, after complaining that the election of ..."

6. Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb: An Officer of the by Isaac Q. Leake (1850)
"The Bill for the Disfranchising of the Tories.—Appointed Collector of the Customs of New York, and withdraws from the Legislature. ..."

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