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frenchise en · NOUN

Etymology

From french + -ise.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of franchise.
   alt of franchise
   • […] the clerk of the Sebastian Circuit Court issued a writ of quo warranto, against the appellee, Raphael M. Johnson, requiring him to show by what authority or warrant, he exercises the office and frenchise of Mayor of the City of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian, in this State. 1857, Reports of cases at law and in equity argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Arkansas, Volume 17, B.J. Borden, page 408:
   • Meetings of Freemen legally & peaceably assembled to Petition Congress for the Elective Frenchise not to be taken away by law, […] 2008, Steven Hahn, Land and labor, 1865, University of North Carolina Press, page 472:

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