disfranchise
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disfranchise (third-person singular simple present disfranchises, present participle disfranchising, simple past and past participle disfranchised)
- (transitive) To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
- 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 175:
- Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority.