ENFRANCHISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enfranchised mean? 

• ENFRANCHISED (adjective)
  The adjective ENFRANCHISED has 1 sense:

1. endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote

  Familiarity information: ENFRANCHISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENFRANCHISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote

Antonym:

disenfranchised (deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote)

 Context examples 

For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils—one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)