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 β 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 β Jan. 4, 2017
One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Sand should be enshrined as the patron saint of female suffragism.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
She believed in militant suffragism and unions and boycotts and strikes; and she labored hard to bring her little charges to her own advanced position.
From Just Patty by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
