0 to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group --
1 to take away a person’s right to vote --
To be sure, active participation in local government remained the prerogative of the middle and lower middle classes, but the propertyless and disenfranchised working classes would benefit from this, too.
A full understanding of political development requires attentiveness to dialectics shaped by minority parties, by individuals who were defeated, even by groups which history sometimes caricatures as disenfranchised.
This would be a logic of belonging to the 'others' to those who have been conquered, disenfranchised, dispossessed.
Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or even jailed.
The memorialist is one who has been disinherited or disenfranchised.
The program intensified economic insecurity of households, and by targeting men disenfranchised women, ignoring their rights over livestock and undermining local initiatives and autonomy.
To disenfranchised ex-samurai, it was a warm tropical paradise, a territory in which to gain personal achievements and fulfill a sense of adventure.
To be consistent, we must be willing to condemn infringements on the rights of the disenfranchised at home as well as abroad.
