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suffrage 音标拼音: [s'ʌfrɪdʒ] n. 投票,选举权,参政权,代祷 投票,选举权,参政权,代祷 suffrage n 1: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [synonym: {right to vote}, {vote}, {suffrage}] Suffrage \Suf"frage\, n. [F., fr. L. suffragium; perhaps originally, a broken piece, a potsherd, used in voting, and fr. sub under the root of frangere to break. See {Break}.] 1. A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. [1913 Webster] I ask your voices and your suffrages. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Testimony; attestation; witness; approval. [1913 Webster] Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. --South. [1913 Webster] 3. (Eccl.) (a) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong. (b) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed. --Shipley. [1913 Webster] I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. --Creed of Pope Pius IV. [1913 Webster] 4. Aid; assistance. [A Latinism] [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 5. The right to vote; franchise. [PJC] Suffrage \Suf"frage\, v. t. To vote for; to elect. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffrage": Australian ballot, Hare system, association, aye, ballot, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, choice, cochairmanship, complicity, condominium, contribution, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement, engagement, fagot vote, female suffrage, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, having a part, household franchise, involvement, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, list system, manhood suffrage, nay, no, nontransferable vote, option, partaking, participation, partnership, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, say, secret ballot, sharing, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, straw vote, suffragette, suffragettism, suffragism, suffragist, the vote, transferable vote, universal suffrage, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, woman-suffragist, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes SUFFRAGE, government. Vote; the act of voting.
2. The right of suffrage is given by the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 2, to the electors in each state, as shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. Vide 2 Story on the Const. Sec. 578, et seq.; Amer. Citiz. 201; 1 Bl. Com. 171; 2 Wils. Lect. 130; Montesq. Esp. des Lois, Ii v. 11, c. 6; 1 Tucker's Bl. Com. App. 52, 3. See Division of opinion.
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