enfranchisement

== English == === Etymology === From enfranchise +‎ -ment. === Noun === enfranchisement (countable and uncountable, plural enfranchisements) The act of enfranchising A release from slavery The investiture with any of several municipal privileges (land legal, England and Wales, historical) the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold estate enfranchisement of copyhold