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单词 ghosthood suffrage
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ghosthood suffrage
2. Ghosts collectively. Chiefly in ghosthood suffrage (cf. ghost voter at ghost n. and adj. Compounds 1b), with humorous and depreciative allusion to manhood suffrage n. Obsolete.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > collectively
phantomry1835
ghosthood1856
1856 J. D. Devlin Contract Reform 3 Considered in connexion with the pay [for shaving the paupers], a farthing a chin, or ‘four-e-penny all round!’ a remuneration which cannot but harrow on the hearing of the ghosthood of barbers of the by-gone better times.
1884 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 651/1 How long are we to wait for Ghosthood Suffrage and Haunted Electoral Districts?
1894 Longman's Mag. Jan. 323 Till we have Ghosthood Suffrage, and an organised Independent Spectre Party, these poor fugitive fellow-creatures of ours will never get fair treatment.
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