Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of setting free, or of liberating from a state of dependence, servitude, or obligation; enfranchisement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of making free; enfranchisement.
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- noun The act of
freeing ;enfranchisement .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The number of free men is very considerable; the Spanish laws and customs being favourable to affranchisement.
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The ancients, then, had a very simple means of avoiding slavery and its evil consequences, which was that of affranchisement; and they succeeded as soon as they adopted this measure generally.
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The ancients, then, had a very simple means of avoiding slavery and its evil consequences, which was that of affranchisement; and they succeeded as soon as they adopted this measure generally.
Democracy in America — Volume 1 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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The number of free men is very considerable; the Spanish laws and customs being favourable to affranchisement.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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But for both, it is deliverance from all evil, it is supreme affranchisement. "
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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