Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the discontinuation of a franchise;
especially the discontinuation of the right to vote;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disfranchisement \Dis*fran"chise*ment\, n.
The act of disfranchising, or the state of being
disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of
chartered immunities.
[1913 Webster]
Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then
to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.
--Palfrey.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disfranchisement
n 1: the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the
discontinuation of the right to vote