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Definition of Affranchise
1. Verb. Grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude. "Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century"
Definition of Affranchise
1. v. t. To make free; to enfranchise.
Definition of Affranchise
1. Verb. To free from obligation or service. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affranchise
Literary usage of Affranchise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"Oh! he must manumit and affranchise himself, from this pilgrimage of slavery,
and so he decamps, evades, recants renounces, yields up the small beer of life ..."
2. An Historical and Critical Dictionary by Pierre Bayle (1826)
"... she was entrusted, she even obliged them to affranchise those inhabitants for
a certain yearly sum. It was almost at that time that those kind of ..."
3. An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and by William Fordyce Mavor (1803)
"To counterfeit humanity, to consent to sacrifice one's interests, to be scoffed
and ridiculed, to impart his goods to the poor, to affranchise his negroes, ..."
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