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Definition: Disfranchised |
DisfranchisedAdjective1. Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disfranchised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonyms: DisfranchisedSynonyms: disenfranchised (adj), voteless (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: enfranchised (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Undueness | Forfeited, disfranchised. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disfranchised |
| Etymologies containing "disfranchised": Disfranchise. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Rights | Peru | The two argued that their removal from Congress disfranchised the voters who had elected them, and that the behavior they were charged with is not a crime. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disfranchised" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Disfranchised" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "disfranchised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | лишенный прав. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-f-h-i-i-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: disfranchise. | |
-3 letters: archfiends, franchised, franchises. | |
-4 letters: acridines, acridness, archfiend, carnified, carnifies, chariness, dandifies, diarchies, finishers, franchise, hairiness, hardiness, riddances, scarified, scarifies, sciaenids. | |
-5 letters: achiness, acidness, acridine, airiness, airsheds, archines, archness, arcsines, aridness, arsenics, caddises, candider, cashiers, cheddars, diehards, discards, discased, discerns, disdains, echidnas, faciends, fairness, fanciers, farsides, fascines, fiendish, finished, finisher, finishes, hardness, inarched. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-f-h-i-i-n-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: disenfranchised. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 66 72 61 6E 63 68 69 73 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100110 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101000 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s f r a n c h i s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0066 0072 0061 006E 0063 0068 0069 0073 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758572846780697475857170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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