Disfranchisement \Dis*fran"chise*ment\, n. The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. --Palfrey.
disfranchisement n : the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote