suffragist
IPA: sˈʌfrʌdʒɪst
noun
- A person who promotes suffrage.
- One who votes.
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Examples of "suffragist" in Sentences
- The suffragist is a true product of our era of liberty.
- (Incidentally, the correct term is "suffragist," not suffragette.
- The suffragist was the landed proprietor, and in every county where his possessions were this right attached.
- "Smithsonian Snapshot" continues rumaging through the millions of Smithsonian artifacts this week with a look at a suffragist's sash.
- A well-regarded novelist and playwright born to one of America's oldest Jewish families, Meyer was the sister of a prominent suffragist.
- With money saved from landscape design and a loan from her mother, suffragist Fay Davidson, Selma was able to purchase and mortgage the $80,000 property.
- By the end of World War I, a handful of elite Anglo-Jewish women had gradually broken down barriers of religion, class, and culture to achieve leadership positions in English suffragist organizations and to simultaneously create the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
- While there he appeared at suffrage functions with Charlotte Perkins Gilman (whom he knew when she lived in the Bay area) and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, the most radical suffragist in the country (and multi-millionaire who underwrote what would become the National Women's Party).
- Maude Miner, a leading feminist and suffragist and director of the Waverly House for Women, a reformatory in New York City, claimed that one-quarter of prostitutes under her tutelage acquired their attitudes and behaviors from “some actively vicious element or clearly degenerate strain, drunkenness or prostitution.”
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