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单词 suffragism
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suffragismn.

Brit. /ˈsʌfrᵻdʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsəfrəˌdʒɪzəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: suffrage n., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < suffrage n. + -ism suffix. Compare earlier suffragist n. With sense 2 compare earlier anti-suffragism n.
Now historical.
1. With modifying word indicating a group of people or proportion of the population: advocacy of extension of the right to vote in political elections to the group specified, or to the extent specified.Frequently as women's (also woman) suffragism.
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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
1840 Standard 6 Feb. The anti-corn-law cry..is inseparable from Ballotism and Universal Suffragism and Chartism.
1871 Charlton (Iowa) Democrat 2 Feb. Woman suffragism and spiritualism are twin sisters of the devil, from which all the prevailing abominations of modern infidelity, divorces and prostitutions have sprung.
1917 C. M. Walsh Feminism x. 367 Both these isms [sc. feminism and socialism], including woman suffragism, try at once to undo nature.
1987 B. H. Harrison Prudent Revolutionaries i. 23 Feminists disliked adult suffragism because it tied women's suffrage too firmly to what then seemed an extreme form of democracy.
2000 M. Sinha in I. Fletcher et al. Women's Suffrage in Brit. Empire (2005) xiv. 225 Elite and middle-class women's organizations adhered to the liberal ideal of the ‘unity’ of women and to the international idiom of women's suffragism.
2. spec. Without modifying word: advocacy of extension of the right to vote in political elections to women; the political movement dedicated to this.Compare earlier anti-suffragism n.
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1907 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. 8/7 Until suffragism could throw up a new Pied Piperess, the House and Constitution would be safe.
1920 Suffragist Sept. 211/1 In the old strenuous days of militant suffragism in England, gentlemen in the House of Commons would rise and dilate heatedly on how much Parliament had done for women.
1979 Feminist Stud. 5 355 Suffragism challenged the male monopoly of public power.
2000 M. Pugh March of Women x. 254 Suffragism began belatedly to cross the class barrier and to develop into something like a mass movement which was much more difficult for the Asquith government to ignore.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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