The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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vb. (present participle of disfranchise English)
Usage examples of "disfranchising".
Nero, he said, would be disfranchised, and if there were any precedent for disfranchising the same man twice he would have inserted his name specially.
If so, and you cannot trust them, the remedy is not in disfranchising the majority, but in prohibiting re-organization, and in holding the territorial people still longer under the provisional government, civil or military.
The worst of all policies is that of hanging, exiling, or disfranchising the wealthy landholders of the South, in order to bring up the poor and depressed whites, shadowed forth in the Executive proclamation of the 29th of May, 1865.
That was why he made such an overt show of disfranchising his daughters, because they were so important to him - his immortality.