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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) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination.† (source)

The law is intended to eliminate fraud without threatening the enfranchisement of eligible voters.

In 1890 Wyoming was the first state to enfranchise women.
enfranchise = grant voting rights

Had not votes enfranchised the freedmen?† (source)

To begin with, it enfranchised the slaves, introduced into the world a morality—† (source) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856

It was the face of a man who was no longer passion's slave, yet who found no advantage in his enfranchisement.† (source)

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)

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) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

"Well, Tom," said St. Clare, the day after he had commenced the legal formalities for his enfranchisement, "I'm going to make a free man of you;—so have your trunk packed, and get ready to set out for Kentuck."† (source)

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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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)

Some to the common pulpits and cry out,
"Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!" (source)
enfranchisement = the right to vote

To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber. (source)
enfranchisement = citizenship

First the enfranchised mob, whether in the city wards or along the western rivers, invented fantastic slang-words and turns of phrase; then they were "seized upon by stump-speakers at political meetings"; then they were heard in Congress; then they got into the newspapers; and finally they came into more or less good usage.† (source)

'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'† (source)

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)

— Brother, farewell: I will unto the king; And whatsoe'er you will employ me in,— Were it to call King Edward's widow sister,— I will perform it to enfranchise you.† (source)

As flowerets, bent and closed by the chill of night, after the sun shines on them straighten themselves all open on their stem, so I became with my weak virtue, and such good daring hastened to my heart that I began like one enfranchised: "Oh compassionate she who succored me!† (source)

I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage.† (source)

I will enfranchise thee.† (source)

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