woman-suffrage love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The exercise of the electoral franchise by women.

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Examples

  • The Senator who last spoke on this question refers to the successful experiment in regard to woman-suffrage in the Territories of Wyoming and Washington.

    Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 Various

  • Would it not be a kind of woman-suffrage to settle the very initials of all that ever bears upon the public question?

    Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 Various

  • He was once the apostle of a doctrine of disunion; he fervently believes in enforcing "total abstinence" by statute; he is the strenuous advocate of woman-suffrage.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

  • She was even hopeful that the two woman-suffrage factions could now forget their differences and work together for "the living, vital issue of today -- freedom to women."

    Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Alma Lutz

  • Even more unforgivable than this to the abolitionist suffragists were the back-page advertisements of a new woman-suffrage paper, _The

    Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Alma Lutz

  • When the territory applied for statehood, it was feared that the woman-suffrage clause in the con - stitution might injure its chance of admission, and the women sent this telegram to Joseph M. Carey:

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • During my lifetime I have cherished two ambitions, and only two: the first, as I have already confessed, had been to succeed Miss Anthony as president of our association; the second was to go around the world, carrying the woman-suffrage ideal to every country, and starting in each a suffrage society.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • She is a tall and attractive woman with an extremely pleasant voice, and she made an admirable speech -- clear, terse, and much to the point, putting herself on record as a strong supporter of the woman-suffrage movement.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • Carl contributed a few careful platitudes to a frivolous discussion of whether it would not be advisable to solve the woman-suffrage question by taking the vote away from men and women both and conferring it on children.

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • In 1894 we conducted a campaign in New York, when an effort was made to secure a clause to enfranchise women in the new state constitution; and for the first time in the history of the woman-suffrage movement many of the influential women in the state and city of New York took an active part in the work.

    The Story of a Pioneer 1915

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