Dictionary entry

Enfranchisement

Webster's Dictionary 1913

En‐fran″chise‐ment (?), n. 1. Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak.

2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.

Enfranchisement of copyhold(Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.