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effranchisement

effranchisement is the obsolete form of enfranchisement.

Meaning of enfranchisement

Noun

enfranchisement (countable and uncountable, plural enfranchisements)

  1. The act of enfranchising
  2. A release from slavery
  3. The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
  4. (England, Wales, historical, land legal) the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold estate
    • enfranchisement of copyhold

Forms of effranchisement

pluraleffranchisements

Questions about effranchisement

What is effranchisement the obsolete form of?
Effranchisement is the obsolete form of enfranchisement.

Words near effranchisement in the dictionary

  1. Effra
  2. effraction
  3. effractions
  4. effranchise
  5. effranchised
  6. effranchisement
  7. effranchisements
  8. effranchises
  9. effranchising
  10. effray
  11. effrayable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: effranchisement (page history and authors); enfranchisement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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