En*fran"chise*ment (?), n.
1.
Releasing from slavery or custody.
Shak.
2.
Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
Enfranchisement of copyhold Eng.Law, the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold.
Mozley & W.
© Webster 1913.