Definition of "disfranchised" [disfranchised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise. (verb)

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• "Page 31 disfranchised, which is a practical satire on the universal suffrage dogma to which the American negro and his particular friends have ever been so especially devoted."
• "Any member of a corporation may be disfranchised, that is, he may lose his membership in the corporation by acting in such manner as to forfeit his rights under a provision of the by-laws; or he may resign from the corporation by his own voluntary act."
• ""disfranchised," and found ourselves quartered on the enemy the next morning as the sun rose in all its resplendent glory."