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Definition of Disfranchise
1. Verb. Deprive of voting rights.
Generic synonyms: Deprive
Derivative terms: Disenfranchisement, Disfranchisement
Antonyms: Enfranchise
Definition of Disfranchise
1. v. t. To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
Definition of Disfranchise
1. Verb. To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disfranchise
1. [v -CHISED, -CHISING, -CHISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfranchise
Literary usage of Disfranchise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1892)
"What! to disfranchise nearly two-thirds of all the Protestants ! to disfranchise
those persons who sent them into this House! The law in their favour had ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1835)
"... the Amendments of the Lords rejected by the Commons—Bills to disfranchise
Warwick, Hertford, Stafford, Liverpool, and Carrickfergus ; none of them pass ..."
3. Electoral Reform in England and Wales: The Development and Operation of the by Charles Seymour (1915)
"... of corruption continually debated by the Commons— Failure to impose a
remedy—Punitive measures suggested after 1832—Proposals to disfranchise individual ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1869)
"... to disfranchise seven small boroughs in England—Counter-proposition of Sir H.
... disfranchise ..."
5. A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1891)
"What! to disfranchise nearly two-thirds of all the Protestants! to disfranchise
those persons who sent them into this House! The law in their favour had ..."
6. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"What think you of a project to disfranchise the insurgent Counties by a bill of
exclusion against their Representatives in the State Legislature? ..."
7. The Lost Cause Regained by Edward Alfred Pollard (1868)
"... proposition of Congress to disfranchise the Negro—Reconstruction policy of
President Johnson—Happy condition of the country under it—Gen. ..."
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