Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dis-franchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of the privileges of a free citizen, or of membership in a corporation, or of some particular immunity or privilege, especially that of voting. Formerly sometimes written diffranchisement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
disfranchising . - noun The
deprivation of theprivileges andimmunities ofcitizenship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
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Examples
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Robert Smith, field coordinator of the Alabama Democratic Party Black Caucus explains, The current system of disfranchisement is incredibly unfair.
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That a majority of the women of the United States accept, without protest, the disabilities which grow out of their disfranchisement is simply an evidence of their ignorance and cowardice, while the minority who demand a higher political status clearly prove their superior intelligence and wisdom.
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Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ...
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Losing the right to vote, called disfranchisement, is most commonly caused by failing to reregister, a procedure that is required every time a person changes residence.
franchise 2002
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The persecution policy against the Jews commenced with nonviolent measures, such as disfranchisement and discriminations against their religion, and the placing of impediments in the way of success in economic life.
Balkinization 2006
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The persecution policy against the Jews commenced with nonviolent measures, such as disfranchisement and discriminations against their religion, and the placing of impediments in the way of success in economic life.
Balkinization 2006
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But the end is not yet, for we hear of other oppressive measures, such as disfranchisement and the like.
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We do not mean to imply that the two things had any connection, yet it is a fact that just about this time a movement was obtaining throughout the Southern States by which the Constitutions of very many of the States were so altered as to admit of the "disfranchisement" of the great body of colored voters in that section of the country.
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church George Freeman 1922
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Page 8 year 1904, in connection with the effort to introduce "disfranchisement" and "jim-crow" conditions into this State.
Men of Maryland George Freeman 1914
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Second, Section 5 singled out race-based denials of voting rights as the only kind of disfranchisement that justified aggressive federal protection.
Election Law 2009
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