enfranchise
授予权利,授予特许权,授予权力,授予权限
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en·fran·chised, en·fran·chis·ing.
- : to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
- : to endow with municipal or parliamentary rights.
- : to set free; liberate, as from slavery.
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We also made it so voters must request an absentee ballot no less than 11 days before a primary or election to help enfranchise voters because the late requesters, they weren’t getting their ballots on time.
"To thank men like Cowan, who did not desire to enfranchise woman any more than the negro, was to stultify ourselves," he said.
From here on there was only one course to follow, to press again for a Sixteenth Amendment to enfranchise women.
An alien immigrant to our shores may desire to attain the full status of citizenship; but desire alone will never enfranchise him.
North Dakota's constitution provided that the legislature might in the future enfranchise women.
For her it was not so much a question of enlightening the angels; the important thing was to enfranchise them.