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suffragette|sʌfrəˈdʒɛt|
[f. suffrage n. + -ette.]
A female supporter of the cause of women's political enfranchisement, esp. one of a violent or ‘militant’ type. Also as v. intr. (in quot. fig.); suffraˈgetism; suffraˈgettish, suffragetty adjs.
1906Daily Mail 10 Jan., Mr. Balfour and the ‘Suffragettes’... It was not surprising that Mr. Balfour should receive a deputation of the Suffragettes. 1907Athenæum 28 Sept. 358/2 [Aristophanes] who represented Cleon as noisy, Euripides as sentimental, Socrates as pedantic, and women as ‘suffragettes’. 1909H. G. Wells Ann Veronica vii. 134 And her straight hair was out demonstrating and suffragetting upon some independent notions of its own. 1912C. S. Churchill Let. 7 Feb. in M. Soames Clementine Churchill (1979) vi. 76 Amy is kind, but more Suffragetty, Christian Sciency and Yankee Doodle than ever. 1913G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Feb. in B. Shaw & Mrs. Campbell (1952) 79 That is the sort of thing that you vaguely lump into a cloud of abomination as Suffragettism. 1957E. Hyams Speaking Garden 75 What, in their time, were more ludicrous than suffragettism or antisepsis or anti-slavery? 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 295 The history of suffragettism..is beyond the scope of this book. 1974V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins (1975) iv. iv. 173 Mrs. Noteboke, a stout dark lady in suffragettish tweeds. |