单词 | suffraged |
释义 | suffragedn.adj. A. n. With the and plural agreement. Those citizens of a country who have a legal right to vote in political elections. Now rare. ΚΠ 1848 People's Jrnl. 6 App. 16/1 To effect these two most desirable objects—equalization of taxation and enlargement of the suffraged,—I propose, therefore, that a penny property tax be levied on all incomes. 1969 L. D. Reid Charles James Fox i. 4 No matter that most of the adults had no right to vote; all, the washed and the unwashed, the suffraged and the unsuffraged, could scream for ‘Freedom’ and ‘Independence’. B. adj. Of a person, group, body, etc.: having a legal right to vote in political elections; consisting of people who have such a right. ΚΠ 1879 A. Clark Gospel in Trees (new ed.) iii. 371 You are a confederacy of suffraged parishes, and a brotherhood of voting men. 1906 Machinists' Monthly Jrnl. Feb. 116/1 Legal ownership is only obtained through the force of the consent of a suffraged people. 1924 Butler (Georgia) Herald 5 June The American woman is full suffraged now and if she wills, may vote her full militant strength in the upcoming national election. 2005 J. Austen TV-a-go-go vi. 141 Popular musicians..would..urge newly suffraged eighteen- to twenty-year-olds to exercise their constitutional right to be heard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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