·adj Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
II. Franchise ·adj Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
III. Franchise ·vt To make free; to Enfranchise; to give liberty to.
IV. Franchise ·adj The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
V. Franchise ·adj A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, ·esp. the right to vote.