suffragettismn.
/ˌsʌfrəˈdʒɛtɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsəfrəˈdʒɛdˌɪzəm/ Chiefly British. Now historical.
Advocacy of extension of the right to vote in political elections to women; women's suffrage as a cause; the behaviour, actions, or beliefs of or associated with the suffragettes.
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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] > advocacy of extension
suffragism1840
suffragettism1907
1907 Monitor & New Era 29 Mar. 13/6 They can discourse at length on Democracy, Socialism, Anarchism, Education, the House of Lords, and Suffragettism.
1910 Argonaut 30 July 75/1 She ‘sassed’ King Abasuerus, and he and his council, fearing an epidemic of suffragettism, banished her from court.
1916 Med. Press & Circular 16 Feb. 138/1 Suffragettism and other ill-balanced propaganda, which seek to persuade woman that she is something other than a child-bearing and child-rearing creature.
2012 Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Nov. Did Lennox feel she held the balance of a century of suffragettism in her hands when she used to strip down to a red bra onstage?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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