Suffragist

How it is used

In British women's history, often contrasts constitutional campaigners with militant suffragettes.

Example sentences

1. The suffragist organized petitions and meetings with members of parliament.

   The example shows parliamentary campaigning for voting rights.

2. The local suffragist society welcomed men who supported votes for women.

   Suffragist describes a position and need not identify a woman's gender.

Common collocations

• a suffragist campaign
• suffragist society

Related terms

• reformA planned change to laws, institutions or practices meant to improve them, usually made step by step by those in power rather than through revolution.
• social classA group of people in a society who share a similar economic position, such as wealth, occupation or education, and often similar status and opportunities.

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• revolution
• uprising
• nationalism
• independence
• coup
• regime
• counter-revolution
• regicide
• iconoclasm
• enfranchisement
• disenfranchisement
• suffragette