Crossword clues for suffragist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffragist \Suf"fra*gist\, n.
One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.
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One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.
It is curious that . . . Louisa Castelefort should be obliged after her marriage immediately to open her doors and turn ultra liberal, or an universal suffragist.
--Miss Edgeworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, "advocate of extension of the political franchise in Britain," without regard to gender, or, in the U.S., of voting rights for free blacks; from suffrage + -ist. After c.1885 especially with reference to voting rights for women.
Wiktionary
n. A person who promotes suffrage.
WordNet
n. an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
Usage examples of "suffragist".
Lily Bede spent money like this on every meal and hosted conventions for impecunious suffragists, and collected antique race horses as pets, she must be damn near running the estate into the ground.
Reggie were discussing something about a female doctor, a suffragist, who was campaigning on behalf of the paintresses at one of her potteries.
The daughters of the horseleech were not more persistent in their demands, the financiers of the tottering ancien regime were not more desperate in their expedients for raising money than the Suffragist workers of all sections at this juncture, and in one way and another, by fair means and normal, they really got together a very useful sum.
The woman suffragists saw no reason why the place of Secretary need as a matter of course be filled by a person of the male sex.
She seemed far less interested in the suffragists and had stopped going to the meetings.
London, she had met several suffragists, and she was fascinated by what was going on there.
She wanted to be talking politics, and meeting suffragists, and going to meetings.
The reform-monging suffragists seem to be equally devoid of the more caressing gifts.
Some pesky Suffragists brought in their pet female doctor and commenced whinging about the entire painting room, especially about the paints and glazes, saying we're poisoning the girls and that's why they disappear.
Actually, Andrew, that's not quite true—Madam and Reggie were discussing something about a female doctor, a suffragist, who was campaigning on behalf of the paintresses at one of her potteries.