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suffragist|ˈsʌfrədʒɪst|
[f. suffrage + -ist.]
An advocate of the extension of the political franchise, esp. (after about 1885) to women. Often with prefixed word (cf. suffrage n. 11 b), as complete suffragist, universal suffragist, woman suffragist.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 156 If they come back Universal Suffragists, we offer to turn Radicals. 1845Tait's Mag. XII. 67 The Complete-suffragists, will say, that..the League are practically admitting the truth of what they have always urged... Which..furnishes one reason the more why the Suffragists should help the League. 1865Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Oct. 5 The anti-negro-suffragists in Connecticut. 1883American VI. 7 The most persistent suffragist claims no more than this. 1900N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. Suppl. cxxi, The cause of the woman suffragists. 1914Daily Mail 8 June 6/6, I am a woman and a suffragist.
Hence suffraˈgistic a., suffraˈgistically adv.
1907Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 13 Apr. 457/2 The shrill suffragistic cheers which punctuated the first performance. 1909Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 6/4 The pageant had been preceded by an excellent entertainment, including several ‘suffragistic’ and other playlets. 1923K. D. Wiggin My Garden of Memory (1924) xiii. 121 Ella intrusively and suffragistically fluttered into the nest,..sadly complicating the family arrangements. |
