suffrage
IPA: sˈʌfrɪdʒ
noun
- (uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision, especially in a democratic election.
- (US) The right of women to vote.
- (countable) A vote in deciding a particular question.
- (countable, Christianity) A prayer, for example a prayer offered for the faithful dead.
- (countable, Christianity) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
- (uncountable) Aid, intercession.
- Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
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Examples of "suffrage" in Sentences
- As political goals go, universal suffrage is pretty concrete and non-fictional.
- Like universal free public education, universal suffrage is a truly revolutionary concept.
- Coincidentally, the term suffrage is synonymous with voting, and the term sufferance means to give passive consent.
- This first clause, then, fixes the class of persons to whom belong this right of suffrage -- _Federal suffrage_ -- not State suffrage.
- As a moral matter, however, anything other than universal suffrage is incompatible with the fundamental values underlying its creation: the just powers of government by consent.
- Universal suffrage is an impracticable piece of nonscense; — Republicanism will only do in new establishd countrys: not in those which have been govern'd by Kings for a thousand years. —
- That universal suffrage is a lot more likely to happen with Gaza & a remnant of the West Bank being dumped at the doorsteps of Jordan & Egypt (they hold elections, you know). pseudonymous in nc Says:
- What about the Sthenoboea of Euripides, the Revellers of Ameipsiasto which, as a matter of simple fact, what you call the suffrage of antiquity did adjudge the first prize, above Aristophanes best?
- 'What about the "Sthenoboea" of Euripides, the "Revellers" of Ameipsias -- to which, as a matter of simple fact, what you call the suffrage of antiquity did adjudge the first prize, above Aristophanes' best? '
- I, however, stood boldly up for the great and just principle of universal suffrage, and moved, as an amendment to the motion made by Mr. Cobbett, that instead of _householder suffrage_, universal suffrage should be substituted.
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