The Only Use
enfranchise
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
(Auto-generated)
- 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.†
p. 158.7
Definitions:
-
(1)
(enfranchise as in: enfranchised after the Civil War) grant the right to vote, or citizenship, or freedom
-
(2)
(enfranchise as in: enfranchised employees) to empower or give voice to
-
(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, to enfranchise is to give a franchise (the right to operate a business under a company's brand).