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The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

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  1. n. The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
  2. n. the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
  3. The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.
  4. The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised;deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then todisfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.
  5. n. the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote