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Definition :

Enfranchisement, making free; used (1) of the newly conferring, as by the Reform Act, 1832, a right of constituency to return a member to Parliament, or of a person to vote at a Parliamentary election; and (2) of the turning copyholds into freeholds, as to which see COPYHOLD.

The granting of voting rights or other right of citizenship to class or person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 549.