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Definition of Disfranchisement
1. Noun. The discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote.
Definition of Disfranchisement
1. n. The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
Definition of Disfranchisement
1. Noun. The act of disfranchising. ¹
2. Noun. The deprivation of the privileges and immunities of citizenship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfranchisement
Literary usage of Disfranchisement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"CHAPTER XII AMOTION OR REMOVAL OF OFFICERS Section Amotion and disfranchisement;
the Two distinguished; English Decisions as to Disfranchise- inent ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"As, however, the Penryn disfranchisement bill was to come under discussion that
evening, and as any ulterior proposition which he might have in view with ..."
3. Electoral Reform in England and Wales: The Development and Operation of the by Charles Seymour (1915)
"... or DISQUALIFICATION Organized disfranchisement—The system of objections—Activities
of the Anti-Corn Law League—Frivolous and vexatious objections—Post ..."
4. The Negro: The Southerner's Problem by Thomas Nelson Page (1904)
"... one is the movement in the South to disfranchise the ignorant element of the
Negro race. This is usually termed the " disfranchisement of the Negro. ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1837)
"... of Election Committees—Bill for the disfranchisement of Stafford passes the
Commons—The Lords resolve to take evidence in support of the Bill—. ..."
6. A Short History of the American Negro by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1919)
"... disfranchisement which had already begun. 98. Progress of disfranchisement.—However
suppressed the Negro's vote may have been in actual ..."
7. The Negro Problem: Abraham Lincoln's Solution by William Passmore Pickett (1909)
"This result is no the Suppres- IGSS tnan tne complete disfranchisement of the
this has come to be an accepted fact. In order that this result may have ..."
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