Disfranchisement (also called disenfranchisement) is the revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or through practices, prevention of a person exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement may be accomplished explicitly by law or implicitly through requirements applied in a discriminatory fashion, in...
• (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
Dis·fran'chise·ment noun The act of disfranchising, or the state of being 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....
[n] - the discontinuation of a franchise
noun the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote