denization

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noun

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noundenization (countable and uncountable, plural denizations)

plural denizations · alternative denisation

  1. countableuncountableThe act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

    a vast number of charters of denization were granted to particular persons of Irish descent from the reign of Henry II. downwards, which gave them and their posterity the full birthrights of English subjects

    1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC
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