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e or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. I ask your voices and your suffrages. Shak.

A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

titutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.

A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of

s of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

rimaries for presidential nominations, direct election of United States senators, women's suffrage, and recall of judicial decisions in certain cases.

e unicameral national assembly of Bulgaria, elected for a term of five years by universal suffrage of adult males.

One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.

ers, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.

One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, as, an independent voter.