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suffrage
English
Etymology
From Middle English suffrage (“prayers or pleas on behalf of another”), from Old French, from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium (“support, vote, right of voting”). The sense of "vote" or "right to vote" was directly derived from classical Latin.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?s?f??d?/
Noun
suffrage (usually uncountable, plural suffrages)
- (uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision, especially in a democratic elections.
- (US) The right of women to vote.
- (US) The right of women to vote.
- (countable) A vote in deciding a particular question.
- (countable, Christianity) A prayer, for example a prayer offered for the faithful dead.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)
- 1564, Pope Pius IV (unknown translator), Creed of Pope Pius IV
- I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
- (countable, Christianity) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
- (uncountable) Aid, intercession.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- Retoricyons and oratours, in fre?he humanyte
Support parrot, I pray you wt your ?uffrage ornate
Of confu?e tantum, auoydynge the chekmate
- Retoricyons and oratours, in fre?he humanyte
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:suffrage.
Synonyms
- (right to vote): franchise
Related terms
- suffragist
- suffragette
- universal suffrage
Translations
Anagrams
- gauffers, gauffres, ruffages
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suffragium (“support, vote, right of voting”).
Noun
suffrage m (plural suffrages)
- suffrage (right to vote)
- suffrage (prayer)
Descendants
- ? Romanian: sufragiu
Further reading
- “suffrage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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disfranchisement
English
Etymology
disfranchise +? -ment
Noun
disfranchisement (countable and uncountable, plural disfranchisements)
- The act of disfranchising.
- The deprivation of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
References
- disfranchisement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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