re-enˈfranchise, v.
Also 7 re-in-.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To enfranchise († set free) again. So re-enˈfranchisement.
| 1611 Florio, Raffrancare, to re-enfranchise or set at libertie. 1660 N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 147 A price paid down for the re-infranchising of inslav'd Men. 1888 G. W. Cable in Libr. Mag. (U.S.) May 16 The slow doling out of re-enfranchisement to the best intelligence of Southern white society. |