Suffrage

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Meaning of Suffrage

A political right or privilege , conferred by the constitution and statutes, to participate by means of voting in elections in the establishment or management of government .

Suffrage Alternative Definition

Vote; the act of voting; the right to vote.

Synonyms of Suffrage

noun

  • affranchisement
  • autonomy
  • choice
  • emancipation
  • enfranchisement
  • exemption from control
  • exemption from restraint
  • franchise
  • freedom
  • freedom of choice
  • liberation
  • liberty
  • license
  • manumission
  • option
  • popular decision
  • prerogative
  • right to vote
  • say
  • selfdetermination
  • selfgovernment
  • suffragium
  • voice
  • vote Associated Concepts: election law
  • voters’ rights

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Suffrage

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late 14c., “intercessory prayers or pleas on behalf of another,” from Old French sofrage “plea, intercession” (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium “support, ballot, vote; right of voting; a voting tablet,” from suffragari “lend support, vote for someone,” conjectured to be a compound of sub “under” (see sub-) + fragor “crash, din, shouts (as of approval),” related to frangere “to break” (see fraction). On another theory (Watkins, etc.) the second element is frangere itself and the notion is “use a broken piece of tile as a ballot” (compare ostracism). Meaning “a vote for or against anything” is from 1530s. The meaning “political right to vote” in English is first found in the U.S. Constitution, 1787.

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