[f. AFFRANCHISE + -MENT.] ‘The act of making free.’ Todd, 1818.
1771. J. Shebbeare, Narr. Oppressions of Jersey, II. 31, note. He [Constantine] permitted the affranchisement of slaves, whose lives he secured by the same law, which guarded those of freemen.
1808. Morn. Chron., 8 Nov., 2/3. The affranchisement of the peasants of East and West Prussia is the effect of that lesson of liberality which the KING of PRUSSIA has learnt from adversity.
