enfranchisement

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Unionisation, the vote for women, civil rights, gay rights and universal health care – these enfranchisements came after decades of struggle, never overnight, and rarely as a result of a single violent action.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2010

Political leaders soon came to realise that recent enfranchisements had added a new electorate for whom philosophical principles had no charm.

From The Cult of Incompetence by Barstow, Beatrice

I receive, sir, with lively sensibility, the symbol of the triumphs and of the enfranchisements of your nation, the colors of France, which you have now presented to the United States.

From Washington's Birthday by Schauffler, Robert Haven

I receive, sir, with lively sensibility the symbol of the triumphs and of the enfranchisements of your nation, the colors of France, which you have now presented to the United States.

From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John

Out of the sixty-nine enfranchisements recorded under this head, there are only two names of male adults to be found,—one an old man of sixty;—the other, called Laurencin, the betrayer of a conspiracy.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio