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US
/ˈsəfɹədʒɪst/
]
[ UK /sˈʌfɹɐdʒˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌfɹɐdʒˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
- an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
How To Use suffragist In A Sentence
- She also assures this organization of woman suffragists: ‘I want women to have their rights.’
- What would the suffragists and suffragettes of yesteryear think?
- The women in Bolton were suffragists, not suffragettes.
- The women in Bolton were suffragists, not suffragettes.
- My favorite suffragist and champion, however, is Matilda Joslyn Gage, born on March 24,and author of Woman, Church, and State which exposed and challenged patriarchies and misogynists in the nineteenth century. Melinda J. Rising: Getting the Spotlight Back on Women
- Mahatma Ghandi made effective use of political fasts, as did the British suffragists, who brought hunger strikes to the American suffrage movement.
- Maud Reeves was very involved in the Fabian Society and was an active suffragist and sociologist.
- She devotes much space to Elisabeth Freeman, a white suffragist whom the NAACP dispatched to Waco immediately after the lynching to do an undercover investigation and prepare a report.
- Some prominent 19 th-century suffragists advocated adopting educational or property qualifications for voting that would disqualify most black women.
- Our struggle, like those of suffragists, abolitionists, and human rights activists will continue until we obtain our goal.