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- noun Alternative spelling of
suffrage .
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Examples
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It's a different struggle, now, of course, but the scale and the international scope -- and the fact that so many relatively disempowered people made so much happen, like escaped slaves and women who'd not yet achieved universal sufferage -- can and should inspire us.
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Two states died along time ago, there is no way to uncut this knot and Palestinians are naturally going to move away from it into a universal sufferage movement.
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Five Best Beatles Songs of All Time elbow room, fireworks, i'm only a bill, schoolhouse rock, sufferin 'for sufferage
5 Best Schoolhouse Rock Songs American Rock | myFiveBest 2009
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While there was a great deal of bad politics surrounding the passage of those amendments and while it might be possible to suggest that some of those politics involved unconstitutional tactics, that fight today is largely over, and this is not an argument I saw segregationists making anyway (the argument would be that states were denied equal sufferage in Congress unconstitutionally unless their legislatures passed the amendments).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public radio program on the modern states’ rights movement 2010
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The princesses 'roles where likely set long before woman's sufferage, never mind the feminist movement.
Sociological Deconstruction of the Disney Princesses » E-Mail 2009
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It was conservatives who worked for centuries against women's rights and woman sufferage!
SBA List launches campaign to support Nevada Republican 2010
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The princesses 'roles where likely set long before woman's sufferage, never mind the feminist movement.
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While there was a great deal of bad politics surrounding the passage of those amendments and while it might be possible to suggest that some of those politics involved unconstitutional tactics, that fight today is largely over, and this is not an argument I saw segregationists making anyway the argument would be that states were denied equal sufferage in Congress unconstitutionally unless their legislatures passed the amendments.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public radio program on the modern states’ rights movement 2010
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Do you even realize that black men got the right to vote before white women did and they started most of the sufferage movements and were the main players in eliminating child labor.
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(Our provincial debate tournament resolution, back in 1976, as I recall it: "Be it resolved that future leaders of major political parties in Saskatchewan be elected by universal popular sufferage.")
How high school debate ruined my blogging career ewillett 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sufferage
Not a misspelling of suffrage. Usage on wharfage....
Say, who has a list of -age nouns? I just ran across a slew of 'em.
October 12, 2008
bilby commented on the word sufferage
I have but an -ager list.
-age wearies me.
October 12, 2008
asativum commented on the word sufferage
Well, it is a misspelling of suffrage, but not exclusively.
October 12, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sufferage
You mean it can be, but in this case it is not.
October 12, 2008
asativum commented on the word sufferage
True.
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October 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word sufferage
Because they think many sufferagettes are?
October 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sufferage
*Gah!*
October 13, 2008
trivet commented on the word sufferage
I have some -ages here.
October 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sufferage
Thanks trivet! I've been coming across a lot of them lately, so if you're still interested in additions to your list, I'll (eventually) post them there (after first checking to be sure they aren't there already).
October 13, 2008
Telofy commented on the word sufferage
Searching for *age in the online OED yields 2855 results.^^
October 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sufferage
Well, then we have our work cut out for us.
(p.s. I know from experience about half of those are going to be contrived and goofy and maybe not worth entering.) :)
October 16, 2008