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

  • It is the history of suffrage around the world.
  • History of suffrage around the world began recently.
  • The suffrage initiative passed during the 1912 election.
  • She was known as the martyr of the Women's Suffrage movement.
  • Unusually for a prohibitionist, Matthews opposed woman suffrage.
  • It was in favour of the gradual implementation of universal suffrage.
  • He was also an advocate of the Women's suffrage in the United States.
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965 also protected the suffrage of poor whites.
  • The referendum is to strive for universal suffrage and to abolish the FCs.
  • She was the founder and president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.
  • 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 Ameipsias—to 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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