Enfranchising

vbl. sb. [f. ENFRANCHISE v. + -ING¹.] The action of the verb ENFRANCHISE, in its various senses.

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1574. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 42 b. The Lorde maye make manumission and infraunchissinge to his villaine.

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1600. Holland, Livy, 871 (R.). The multitude, so augmented by the enfranchising of slaves.

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1688. Addr. fr. Totness, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2347/1. Your most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence, for the enfranchizing of Conscience.

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1787. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 92. The enfranchising the port of Honfleur at the mouth of the Seine.

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