suffrages

After in this procession singularly we call the suffrages of all the saints.

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

a council, and brought into the Senate, the Senate chooses four more competitors to him, and putting all five to the ballot, he who has most above half the suffrages is the magistrate.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

Hence, under "suffrages" for the dead, which are defined to be legitimate and efficacious, are included not only formal supplications, but every kind of pious work that may be offered for the spiritual benefit of others, and it is in this comprehensive sense that we speak of prayers in the present article.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

If a Parliament, with suffrages and universal or any conceivable kind of suffrages, is the method, then certainly let us set about discovering the kind of suffrages, and rest no moment till we have got them.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people…

Congress becomes Madison’s “overbearing majority” 2010

This act consists in giving to the Souls in Purgatory all our works of satisfaction, that is to say, the satisfactory value of all the works of our life and of all the suffrages which shall be given to us after our death, without reserving anything to discharge our own debts.

From the Friends of the Poor Souls - Heroic Acts of Love Esther G. 2009

En juillet 1967, bien des Québécois se considéraient encore comme des Canadiens français, René Lévesque n'avait pas encore quitté le Parti libéral, Daniel Johnson père avait remporté son élection sur le thème «Égalité ou indépendance» et les partis indépendantistes récoltaient moins de 9 % des suffrages.

Vive le Quebec Libre: 40 years later uncorrectedproofs 2007

En juillet 1967, bien des Québécois se considéraient encore comme des Canadiens français, René Lévesque n'avait pas encore quitté le Parti libéral, Daniel Johnson père avait remporté son élection sur le thème «Égalité ou indépendance» et les partis indépendantistes récoltaient moins de 9 % des suffrages.

Archive 2007-07-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007

May she continue to strengthen our prayers with her suffrages, that, in the midst of all the stress and trouble of the nations, those divine prodigies may be happily revived by the Holy Ghost, which were foretold in the words of David: "Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created, and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth" Ps. ciii., 30.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

It is an absolute donation in favor of the souls of all that we can give them; we offer to God in their behalf all the good we do, of what kind so ever, either in thought, words or works, all that we suffer meritoriously during this life, without accepting anything that we may reasonably give them, and adding even those suffrages which we may receive for ourselves after death.

From the Friends of the Poor Souls - Heroic Acts of Love Esther G. 2009