suffragist
noun
suf·frag·ist
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Definition of suffragist
: one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women
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There were suffragists that formed local women's organizations – the initial structure that made statewide campaigns possible. — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, "100 years ago Ohio ratified the 19th Amendment. Here are 6 women who made suffrage reality," 14 June 2019 Women assuming the identities of key national suffragist leaders — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt — will give performances. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Annual parade to mark 100th anniversary of suffrage milestones," 21 Aug. 2019 Some suffragists voted illegally and served time in prison. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, "Women won the vote with the 19th Amendment, but hurdles remain," 23 May 2019 Nearly 16,000 pages of letters, speeches, newspaper articles and other suffragist documents are now available on By the People, a crowdsourcing platform launched by the library in 2018. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "The Library of Congress Needs Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers," 31 July 2019 The Boylston office has conference rooms named after black Boston suffragist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and pioneering Chinese-American restaurateur Ruby Foo. — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, "Can a black woman fly at The Wing?," 31 July 2019 Dauterman’s gambit is to connect the suffragist-era circumstances with modern obstacles as a woman declares for Congress and airs an accusation. — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, "Mike Daisey scores big in an uneven ‘curated’ series at Capital Fringe Festival," 10 July 2019 The conservancy’s overall aim is to save the cottage that for a time served as the home of Sherman Booth, Wright’s attorney, and his wife, Elizabeth, who played a prominent role in the woman’s suffragist movement. — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, "Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy seeks proposals to move Glencoe cottage threatened with demolition," 28 June 2019 Going forward, American suffragists largely strove to conform to fashion rather than upending it, rebranding themselves as respectable women instead of radicals. — Kimberly Chrisman-campbell, The Atlantic, "When American Suffragists Tried to ‘Wear the Pants’," 12 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'suffragist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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suffragist
noun
English Language Learners Definition of suffragist
: a person in the past who worked to get voting rights for people who did not have them
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