adj magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
2. franchise ·adj exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
3. franchise ·vt to make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
4. franchise ·adj the district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
5. 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.