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suffragist

[ suhf-ruh-jist ]

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noun

an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.

suffragist

/ ˈsʌfrədʒɪst /

suffragist

A participant in the women's movement to win voting rights in the United States. The fight for women's suffrage was organized in the middle of the nineteenth century. Wyoming , while not yet a state, granted women's suffrage in 1869, though the struggle for universal suffrage was to last another fifty years. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing that no state could deny the right to vote on the basis of sex.

First recorded in 1815–25; suffrage + -ist

There he met Frances Wright, America's first suffragist, with whom he formed an intimate friendship lasting through many years.

This good man has since become an earnest anti-suffragist and opposer of the movement for the higher education of women.

The suffragist who bases a claim on the so-called "logic of democracy" is making the poorest possible showing for a good cause.

People came thirty, forty and fifty miles in buggies and wagons to shake hands with the pioneer suffragist.

Thank you for your admirable article and for the copy of the Memorial, an effective reply to that of the Suffragist ladies.

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