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Especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
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disfranchisement
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disfranchisement \Dis*fran"chise*ment\, n. The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of disfranchise. 2 The deprivation of the privileges and immunity of citizenship.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disfranchisement (also called disenfranchisement ) is the revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or through practices, prevention of a person exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement is also termed ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
Usage examples of disfranchisement.
Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic.
The interest of the nation demands not the death or the expulsion of the secessionists, and, least of all, of those classes proscribed by the President's proclamation of the 29th of May, 1865, nor even their disfranchisement, perpetual or temporary.
The South must be kept down and disfranchisement of the whites was one way to keep the South down.