| 单词 | manhood suffrage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmanhood suffrage manhood suffrage n. now chiefly historical that form of popular election in which the right to vote is granted to all male citizens of sufficient age not disqualified by crime, insanity, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > of adult males manhood suffrage1855 1855 ‘P. Papineau’ (title) Homesteads for the people, and manhood suffrage, in a series of four letters. 1859 B. Disraeli in Hansard Commons 31 Mar. 1245 Why, Sir, I have no apprehension myself that if you had manhood suffrage tomorrow the honest, brave, and good-natured people of England would resort to pillage, incendiarism, and massacre. 1864 Q. Rev. 116 262 If Mr Gladstone is generally supposed to have taken up the battle-cry of manhood suffrage, he has only himself to thank for it. 1930 M. D. Kennedy Changing Fabric of Japan vii. 121 In 1923, meetings in favour of Manhood Suffrage were broken up by gangs of soshi. 1980 J. Lowerson Short Hist. Sussex (BNC) 113 The Duke [of Richmond] presided over a county meeting in Lewes in January 1780, which prepared a petition for ‘Public Oeconomy’. He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage. < as lemmas |
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