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suf⋅fra⋅gist

  [suhf-ruh-jist]
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–noun
an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, esp. to women.
Origin:
1815–25; suffrage + -ist

Related forms:
suf⋅fra⋅gism, noun
suf⋅fra⋅gis⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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n.  An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
suf'fra·gism n.
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Suffragist

Suf"fra*gist\, n. 1. One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.

2. One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.

It is curious that . . . Louisa Castelefort should be obliged after her marriage immediately to open her doors and turn ultra liberal, or an universal suffragist. --Miss Edgeworth.
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suffragist [(suf-ruh-jist)]

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.

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