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enfranchise

verb as in set free

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Now it’s about voting and how important it is for people to be enfranchised.

We want to make sure that what we’re doing here is really leading the way for others to also think about how they can enfranchise immigrants in their own cities.

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We also made it so voters must request an absentee ballot no less than 11 days before a primary or election to help enfranchise voters because the late requesters, they weren’t getting their ballots on time.

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"To thank men like Cowan, who did not desire to enfranchise woman any more than the negro, was to stultify ourselves," he said.

From here on there was only one course to follow, to press again for a Sixteenth Amendment to enfranchise women.

An alien immigrant to our shores may desire to attain the full status of citizenship; but desire alone will never enfranchise him.

North Dakota's constitution provided that the legislature might in the future enfranchise women.

For her it was not so much a question of enlightening the angels; the important thing was to enfranchise them.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to enfranchise, such as: emancipate, empower, free, liberate, manumit, and naturalize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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