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SUFFRAGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("suffragist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suffragist"):
suffragette (a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century))
Instance hyponyms:
Anthony; Susan Anthony; Susan B. Anthony; Susan Brownell Anthony (United States suffragist (1820-1906))
Howe; Julia Ward Howe (United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910))
Livermore; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (United States suffragist (1820-1905))
Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris; Esther Morris; Morris (United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902))
Lucretia Coffin Mott; Mott (United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880))
Jeannette Rankin; Rankin (leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973))
Anna Howard Shaw; Shaw (United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919))
Julia Evelina Smith; Smith (United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886))
Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Stanton (United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902))
Lucy Stone; Stone (United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893))
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard; Willard (United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898))
Victoria Clafin Woodhull; Woodhull (United States advocate of women's suffrage; in 1872 she was the first woman to run for the United States presidency (1838-1927))
Derivation:
suffrage (a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment)
