单词 | suffragation |
释义 | † suffragationn. Obsolete (rare in later use). Consent, approval, or support; a declaration or expression of this. Also: the action, process or fact of voting; the exercise of suffrage.In quot. 1801 as a self-conscious use of an obscure or unusual word. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] suffragea1535 suffrage1559 suffragation1576 suffraging1614 voicing1618 polling1625 votation1772 voting1826 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 12 Our suffragation, or consenting voices. c1600 J. Peyton Relation State of Polonia, 1598 in C. H. Talbot Res Polonicae ex Archivo Musei Britannici (1965) I. 52 The Suffragation by Palatinates used in Henries election might in tyme proove preiudiciall to the libertie of the Nobilitie. 1605 tr. J. Bignon True Maner Electing Popes i. sig. A4v After Saint Clement, all the Popes were made and created by the voyce and suffragation of the Clergie and Christian people of the Cittie of Rome. 1629 W. Crosse tr. Sallust Warre of Iugurth xvii in tr. Sallust Wks. 428 Thus for him the Consulship was sued for by many men, with a most honest suffragation. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suffragation, the act of giving a suffrage. 1801 Burnisher 24 Jan. 62 The infantine work..had my suffragation, from a cogitation that..by keeping a plebeian orbit of action, consistent with your abject idiom, you would, to the opaque, dispense accommodation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1576 |
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