Crossword-Solution: DISFRANCHISE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disfranchise | v. t. | To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “DISFRANCHISE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DEPRIVE of right and privileges of a free citizen | 1 answer |
| DEPRIVE of right of sending | 1 answer |
| DEPRIVE of right of voting for | 1 answer |
| to deprive of franchise | 1 answer |
| DEPRIVE of privileges | 2 answers |
| Disqualify | 49 answers |
| Deprive. | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with DISFRANCHISE (5)
The mistake of the last session was the attempt to do this very thing, by a renunciation of its power to secure political rights to any class of citizens, with the obvious purpose to allow the rebellious States to disfranchise, if they should see fit, their colored citizens.
Disfranchise them, and the mark of Cain is set upon them less mercifully than upon the first murderer, for no man was to hurt him.
There are candid native whites who do not deny, but justify, the violent methods which have been employed to disfranchise the negroes, or compel them to vote under white dictation, in many parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, on the ground that the men who pay the taxes should vote them and control the disbursement of the public moneys.
Taking up this side of the problem we shall discover two entirely distinct difficulties:-- First, we shall find many Negroes, and indeed hundreds of thousands of white men as well, who might vote, but who, through ignorance, or inability or unwillingness to pay the poll-taxes, or from mere lack of interest, disfranchise themselves.
Through the pressure of the money-makers, the Negro is in danger of being reduced to semi-slavery, especially in the country districts; the workingmen, and those of the educated who fear the Negro, have united to disfranchise him, and some have urged his deportation; while the passions of the ignorant are easily aroused to lynch and abuse any black man.