suffragingn.
/ˈsʌfrᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsəfrədʒɪŋ/ rare.
The action of voting; the exercise of the right to vote in political elections.In later use with reference to women, and usually (as in quots. 1910 and 2010) with punning allusion to suffering n.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun]
suffragea1535
suffrage1559
suffragation1576
suffraging1614
voicing1618
polling1625
votation1772
voting1826
1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia iii. i. i. 101 They also having freedome of suffraging.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 691 Proctors were elected then (as 'tis said) by the publick Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give, as if an equal power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters.
1841 Penny Satirist 10 July 4/3 It is not hunting, and fishing, nor eating and drinking, nor suffraging,..nor any other species of animality or philosophy that will make us better.
1910 Life 17 Nov. 868/1 We all know that there are no limits to what the tyrant man will do to cause suffering—not suffraging—to our downtrodden sex.
2010 Amer. Prospect (Nexis) Oct. 7 Isn't it time to end the suffraging of women? Haven't they suffraged enough?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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