2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic;
investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
[1913 Webster]
{Enfranchisement of copyhold} (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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