Enfranchise vs Manumit - What's the difference?
enfranchise | manumit |
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.
To release from slavery, to free.
* 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked , Arbor House Publishing Company (1985),
As verbs the difference between enfranchise and manumit
is that enfranchise is to grant the franchise to an entity, specifically: while manumit is to release from slavery, to free.enfranchise
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(enfranchis)manumit
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(en-verb)- Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted , she never entirely lost.