Definition of Disfranchised. Meaning of Disfranchised. Synonyms of Disfranchised

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Definition of Disfranchised

Disfranchised
Disfranchise Dis*fran"chise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Disfranchising.] [Cf. Diffranchise.] 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. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. --Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. --Thirlwall.

Meaning of Disfranchised from wikipedia

- competition can disenfranchise political movements. Women used to be disfranchised. Feminism has successfully managed to claim voting rights in most countries...
- Kousser found, "They disfranchised these whites as willingly as they deprived blacks of the vote." Perman noted the goals of disfranchi****t resulted from several...
- Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited is a 1999 biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his ****ociated normal school for freedmen...
- The Disfranchising Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland debated in 1727 and enacted in 1728, one of a series of Penal Laws, and prohibited...
- franchise was exclusively male. From 1728 until 1793, Catholics were disfranchised, as well as being ineligible to sit in the Commons. Most of the po****tion...
- the white-dominated legislature. (Black people had been effectively disfranchised at the turn of the century by Georgia's p****age of a new constitution...
- accepted and which eventually went into law. Grampound was disfranchised by the Disfranchi****t of Grampound (No. 2) Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 47), with...
- Americans still lived in the South, where they had been effectively disfranchised, so they could not vote at all. While poll taxes and literacy requirements...
- were greater on the black community, as almost all its citizens were disfranchised and relegated to separate and unequal treatment under the law. From...
- the further Security and Protection of Her Majesty's Person. Sudbury Disfranchi****t Act 1842 (repealed) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 52 16 July 1842 An Act to indemnify...