suffragette
noun
a female advocate of the right of women to vote, especially one who participated in protests in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century.
suffragettism
-
a word derived from
suffragette.
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Pronunciation, Old and New, shows that the Irish brogue is Shakespeare's pronunciation while The Women of Two Republics demonstrates how old are our political problems, even suffragettism.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
