Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Enfranchisement \En*fran"chise*ment\, n.
   1. Releasing from slavery or custody. --Shak.

   2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic;
      investiture with the privileges of free citizens.

   {Enfranchisement of copyhold} (Eng. Law), the conversion of a
      copyhold estate into a freehold. --Mozley & W.