Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no vote; denied a vote or the right to vote.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no vote; not entitled to a vote.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person, etc. Without a
vote ; notallowed a vote.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
Etymologies
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Examples
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KING: Well, I would hope -- let me just say what he always said, which is, a voteless people is a powerless people.
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The ultimate test of American democracy, historian Taylor Branch says, “is whether we can protect our voteless, most vulnerable group—children—without whom there is no future.” So I hope you will join the human posse to rescue our vulnerable children from political predators.
Marian Wright Edelman: Stop Political Lions from Attacking Our Children: Join the Rescue Posse Marian Wright Edelman 2011
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The ultimate test of American democracy, historian Taylor Branch says, “is whether we can protect our voteless, most vulnerable group—children—without whom there is no future.” So I hope you will join the human posse to rescue our vulnerable children from political predators.
Marian Wright Edelman: Stop Political Lions from Attacking Our Children: Join the Rescue Posse Marian Wright Edelman 2011
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The ultimate test of American democracy, historian Taylor Branch says, “is whether we can protect our voteless, most vulnerable group—children—without whom there is no future.” So I hope you will join the human posse to rescue our vulnerable children from political predators.
Marian Wright Edelman: Stop Political Lions from Attacking Our Children: Join the Rescue Posse Marian Wright Edelman 2011
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For, when one started crunching the numbers, it turned out that in states with permanent disenfranchisement upwards of a quarter of African American male adults were voteless.
Sasha Abramsky: America's Disenfranchisement Scandal Sasha Abramsky 2011
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The ultimate test of American democracy, historian Taylor Branch says, “is whether we can protect our voteless, most vulnerable group—children—without whom there is no future.” So I hope you will join the human posse to rescue our vulnerable children from political predators.
Marian Wright Edelman: Stop Political Lions from Attacking Our Children: Join the Rescue Posse Marian Wright Edelman 2011
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John Major thought the same - he instead had what he later called a "voteless recovery".
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John Major thought the same - he instead had what he later called a "voteless recovery".
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Their preliminary accord last August held out the promise of talks aimed at granting full political rights to the country's voteless black majority.
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Stray displaced big shots were to turn up in the lobbies of the convention hotels, later that summer, uncredentialed, ticketless, voteless and forlorn; they were like officials of a government-in-exile and would tell their horror stories of "infiltration" and "putsch" over and over to the press.
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