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disenfranchised

[dis-en-fran-chahyz]

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verb (used with object), -chised, -chis·ing.

to disfranchise.

Origin:
1620–30; dis-¹ + enfranchise

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dis·en·fran·chise·ment

[dis-en-fran-chahyz-muhnt, -chiz-] , noun

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Ritter's great talent was forging public policy for the disenfranchised.

They become tainted, and possibly a permanently disenfranchised minority.

Disenfranchised former prisoners can be denied work in an eccentric range of jobs, from athletic trainer to funeral director.

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Ritter's great talent was forging public policy for the disenfranchised.

They become tainted, and possibly a permanently disenfranchised minority.

Disenfranchised former prisoners can be denied work in an eccentric range of jobs, from athletic trainer to funeral director.

It's a disenfranchised grief when you're a victim of these people.

So almost half the total will now be disenfranchised.

Otherwise, you may be doing a disservice to both the academy and the historically disenfranchised.

In response, it advocates policies that will challenge the privileged and empower the disenfranchised.

He believes recovery can come from the poor and disenfranchised and from alternative energy.

Some other means of giving them a vote would have to be found if they were not to be disenfranchised.

Yet these disenfranchised investors can take comfort from three things.

Many of those with children, or night-shift jobs, and the elderly are in effect disenfranchised.

So the circuits are disenfranchised from the broadcasters who, in turn, are disenfranchised from the teams.

Unless you are one of those who benefit from the largess of that dominant party, then you are utterly disenfranchised.

Every big scandal has the effect of making the poor feel more disenfranchised.

When the vast majority feel disenfranchised and powerless, instability is not far away.

There is a lesson to be learnt for all non mainstream and disenfranchised voters.

In an ideal world, the disenfranchised might rise up.

Who knows if it was intentional or the work of disenfranchised street artists.

Polygamists were disenfranchised and their property was confiscated.

He often gets grateful emails from wistful or disenfranchised former customers and employees.

Missouri's voting-list problems received far less attention, but may have disenfranchised more eligible voters.

DeGeneres is simply the industry's latest bid to reach out to women who consider themselves disenfranchised because they do not.

Ifill was known widely as an advocate for the disenfranchised.

Her poetry was imbued with advocacy for the poor, for women and the disenfranchised.

They are utterly disenfranchised and disillusioned with the political process.

They have nowhere to go and they are the truly disenfranchised that will blow up and topple the government.

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Word Origin & History

disenfranchise

"deprive of civil or electoral privileges," 1640s, from dis- + enfranchise. Earlier form was disfranchise (mid-15c.). Related: Disenfranchised; disenfranchisement.

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"Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children."

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