Affranchise vs Enfranchise - What's the difference?
affranchise | enfranchise |
To free from obligation, servitude or service.
To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
# To grant the privilege of voting to a person or group of people.
# To grant municipal or parliamentary rights to an entity such as a city or constituency.
# To grant freedom from slavery or servitude.
As verbs the difference between affranchise and enfranchise
is that affranchise is to free from obligation, servitude or service while enfranchise is to grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:.affranchise
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Alternative forms
* affranchize (possibly nonstandard)Verb
(affranchis)- ''Eventually, the intention was that they should affranchise all the slaves.