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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An advocate of women's suffrage, especially in the United Kingdom.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A woman who advocates female suffrage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

Etymologies

  1. suffrage +‎ -ette (“female agent”) (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Today, the term suffragette is often considered demeaning.”

    suffragette

  • “When the years brought those violent scenes and emotions of what has been called the suffragette campaign, Rosalie, who might have been expected to be a militant of the militants, took no part nor even interest in it whatever.”

    This Freedom

  • “This then is the end of the argument in favour of the suffragette, which is developed out of her own psychology.”

    The Psychology of the Suffragette

  • “Given that the speech focused on bringing all her supporters behind Obama, mainly women who see her candidacy as part of the 'suffragette' movement and last nigh being the anniversary of the women obtaining the right to vote and all I thought it was a very divisive subliminal message.”

    New York Times: Hillary Speech Partly Driven By Ambition

  • “There were enough men involved in the women's rights movement that the anti-vote males in the media used "suffragette" to humiliate men who were "suffragists," diminishing the term by putting an "ette" on the end.”

    Ellen Snortland: Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter

  • “By the way, the term "suffragette" is an example of turn-of-the-century media "spin.”

    Ellen Snortland: Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter

  • “The nitpicky twits who are looking to turn men into the enemy are not humanists, let alone feminists in the true "suffragette" sense of the word.”

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

  • “Her fellow 'suffragette', Maria Sharapova, recently sealed a £45million contract with a sports manufacturer, the most lucrative commercial deal ever for a female athlete.”

    Football.co.uk news feed

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  • Prolagus You were chained to a girl that would kill you with a look
    (It’s a nice way to die, she’s so easy on the eye)
    She said let’s get away, but you played it by the book
    (You’re a warden’s pet, she’s a screaming suffragette).


    (White collar boy, by Belle and Sebastian) Apr 27, 2008

  • abraxaszugzwang Su su su suffragette city. Aaaaaaaaaw suffragette! Feb 7, 2007

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