The act of granting freedom, rights, or liberty to someone previously enslaved or without legal standing.
From effranchise + -ment suffix. Emerged in Early Modern English legal and philosophical discourse about slavery, freedom, and rights.
This word appears in debates about abolition, voting rights, and women's suffrage—each movement used 'effranchisement' to signal a fundamental change in legal status and human dignity.
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