suffragist
noun
an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
suffragism
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a word derived from
suffragist.
Example Sentences
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One reason, surely, is that Stanton sought to take suffragism to a place it did not want to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The camps’ explicit mission was to train a new generation of activists, another step on the ladder that they had climbed, through trade unionism, farmers’ unions, suffragism and feminism, to antiwar activism.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism.
From Time Magazine Archive
You ask me if I sympathise with suffragism.
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
There are many modern things which threaten it much more than suffragism; notably the increase of self-supporting women, even in the most severe or the most squalid employments.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
