Suffrage

Quick meaning: Suffrage is a noun meaning (uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision, especially in a democratic election.

Meaning

(uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision, especially in a democratic election.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A vote in deciding a particular question.
2. (countable, Christianity) A prayer, for example a prayer offered for the faithful dead.
3. (countable, Christianity) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
4. (uncountable) Aid, intercession.
5. Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.

Example Sentences

universal suffrage, women's suffrage, negro suffrage

Lastly, in this suffrage, we intercede for prisoners and captives; we "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them."

In explaining and defending suffrages for the dead, Catholic argument repeatedly involved the assumption of the importance of time.

Hence, by rendering the suffrages secret in the Roman republic, all was lost; it was no longer possible to direct a populace that sought its own destruction

Word Forms

• suffrages

Synonyms for suffrage

Depending on context, synonyms include franchise, vote.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vote, electoral, election, ballot, balloting, polling.

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