Sample Sentences for
enfranchise
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enfranchise as in:  enfranchised after the Civil War

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The law is intended to eliminate fraud without threatening the enfranchisement of eligible voters.
enfranchisement = the right to vote
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    In 1890 Wyoming was the first state to enfranchise women.
    enfranchise = grant voting rights
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    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.†  (source)
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    When women could vote, suddenly their lives became more important, and enfranchising women ended up providing a huge and unanticipated boost to women's health.†  (source)
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    To begin with, it enfranchised the slaves, introduced into the world a morality—†  (source)
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    The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more; and it was altogether an attention which the delicacy of his conscience pointed out to be requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.†  (source)
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    'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'†  (source)
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    Had not votes enfranchised the freedmen?†  (source)
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    It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination.†  (source)
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    I will enfranchise thee.†  (source)
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    The next moment, without any visible cause for the change, her unwonted joy shrank back, appalled, as it were, and clothed itself in mourning; or it ran and hid itself, so to speak, in the dungeon of her heart, where it had long lain chained, while a cold, spectral sorrow took the place of the imprisoned joy, that was afraid to be enfranchised,—a sorrow as black as that was bright.†  (source)
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    It was the face of a man who was no longer passion's slave, yet who found no advantage in his enfranchisement.†  (source)
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    Nay, hear them, Antony: Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent His powerful mandate to you: 'Do this or this; Take in that kingdom and enfranchise that; Perform't, or else we damn thee.'†  (source)
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    Within the car there was the usual interior life of the railroad, offering little to the observation of other passengers, but full of novelty for this pair of strangely enfranchised prisoners.†  (source)
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enfranchise as in:  enfranchised employees

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Social media platforms enfranchise ordinary people to share their voices with global audiences.
enfranchise = empower
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The company's profit-sharing program enfranchises employees by giving them a real stake in the business.
enfranchises = empowers
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