Suffragist

Quick meaning: Suffragist is a noun meaning A person who promotes suffrage.

Meaning

A person who promotes suffrage.

More Meanings

1. One who votes.
2. Of, relating to, or promoting suffrage.

Example Sentences

In examples that start from the nation’s earliest days — through suffragist movements, racial integration and the legalization of abortion — some of the biggest opponents of women’s rights have been women.

On June 4 the first speech was made by Senator [James Wolcott] Wadsworth [Jr.] of New York, whose very clever attack upon suffragist tactics was followed by an appeal to the economic fears and prejudices of his own prosperous class: […]

She [Isabella Stewart Gardner] lived during one of the most tumultuous eras in American history, an era that included the Civil War, Reconstruction, the explosion of industrial capitalism and the rise of the socialist, trade-union, Populist, suffragist and transcendentalist movements.

Other suffragists (like Susan B. Anthony and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont) and “suffragents” helped make the referendum a reality here. Ms. [Elaine] Weiss called New York “the linchpin” that put our country on the path to pass the 19th Amendment in 1920, granting women across the United States the right to vote.

Word Forms

• suffragists

Synonyms for suffragist

Depending on context, synonyms include suffragette.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suffragette, suffrager, suffragator, advocate, advocatress, advocatrice.

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