Suffrage
['sʌfrɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.
(n.) Aid; assistance.
(n.) The right to vote; franchise.
(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Vote, voice, ballot.[2]. Prayer (as uttered by a congregation in response to a minister).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:[See SMOTHER], voice, support
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Definition
n. a vote: a vote in approbation of any proposal hence approval assent: testimony witness: any short intercessory prayer.—n. Suff′ragist one who votes: one holding particular opinions about the right of voting.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means as commonly interpreted the right to vote for the man of another man's choice and is highly prized. Refusal to do so has the bad name of 'incivism. ' The incivilian however cannot be properly arraigned for his crime for there is no legitimate accuser. If the accuser is himself guilty he has no standing in the court of opinion; if not he profits by the crime for A's abstention from voting gives greater weight to the vote of B. By female suffrage is meant the right of a woman to vote as some man tells her to. It is based on female responsibility which is somewhat limited. The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them.
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Examples
- I remember once speaking to a local boss about woman suffrage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Certainly the elimination of male from the suffrage qualifications will not end the feminist agitation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The suffrage for the election of the notabilities of the commune was universal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, said Adeimantus; and you may add my suffrage to Damon's and your own. Plato. The Republic.
- None had ever before suspected, that power, or the suffrage of the many, could in any manner become dear to him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A flag, floating from the summit of the temple, proclaimed to mankind that it was 'Sleary's Horse-riding' which claimed their suffrages. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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