disfranchise

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISFRANCHISE, verb transitive [dis and franchise.] To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc.
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