affranchise.
To free from obligation, servitude or service.
Meaning & usage
To free from obligation, servitude or service.
Eventually, the intention was that they should affranchise all the slaves.
Where this word comes from
From late Middle English affranchysen, from Old French afranchiss-, long stem of afranchir (modern French affranchir), from a- + franchir (“to free”). By surface analysis, af- + franchise.
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