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female suffrage

[ fee-meyl suhf-rij ]

female suffrage

noun

  1. another name for women's suffrage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of female suffrage1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

On April 11, 1867, the subject of female suffrage was first discussed in the House of Commons without being greeted with a laugh.

Another, "The Rival Candidates," was to present the humors of female suffrage.

If the girls beat, the whole country would know it, and after that female suffrage would be only a question of time.

That thin voice, in patient soliloquy, was discussing Female Suffrage, going very far down into the roots of the matter.

As to Mattie's second, I am for female suffrage, here and everywhere upon earth.

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