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1. In England, an alien who is made a subject by the kings letters patent, holding a middle state between an alien and a natural born subject. He may take land by purchase or devise, which an alien cannot; but he cannot take by inheritance.
2. A stranger admitted to residence and certain rights in a foreign country.
3. Ye gods,
4. Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes.
5. A citizen.
To make a denizen; to admit to residence with certain rights and privileges; to infranchise.
1. A dweller; an inhabitant.
2. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
Denizen
Encyclopedia Britannica
DENIZEN, an alien who obtains by letters patent (ex donatione regis) certain of the privileges of a British subject. He cannot be a member of the Privy Council or of Parliament, or hold any civil or military office of trust, or take a grant of land from the Crown. The Naturalization Act, 1870, provides that nothing therein contained shall affect the grant of any letters of denization by Her Majesty. See Naturalization.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 7, p. 79
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Denization; denizening.
State of being a denizen.
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