suffragistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

suffragist (plural suffragists)

1. A person who promotes suffrage.

   Hyponyms: suffragent, suffragette

   • 2017 November 6, Alexandra S. Levine, “New York Today: A Century of Women Voting”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 November 2017:

     Other suffragists (like Susan B. Anthony and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont) and “suffragents” helped make the referendum a reality here. Ms. [Elaine] Weiss called New York “the linchpin” that put our country on the path to pass the 19th Amendment in 1920, granting women across the United States the right to vote.

2. One who votes.

関連する語

• suffragette
• suffragettism

形容詞

suffragist (comparative more suffragist, superlative most suffragist)

1. Of, relating to, or promoting suffrage.
   • a. 1956, Maud Wood Park, “Belated Victory”, in Edna Lamprey Stantial, editor, Front Door Lobby: A Vivid Account of How the 19th Amendment (Woman Suffrage) Became a Reality, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, published 1960, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 261:

     On June 4 the first speech was made by Senator [James Wolcott] Wadsworth [Jr.] of New York, whose very clever attack upon suffragist tactics was followed by an appeal to the economic fears and prejudices of his own prosperous class: […]

   • 1998 February 4, Susie Linfield, “A Woman’s Life Overwhelmed by Exclamation Points”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 July 2022:

     She [Isabella Stewart Gardner] lived during one of the most tumultuous eras in American history, an era that included the Civil War, Reconstruction, the explosion of industrial capitalism and the rise of the socialist, trade-union, Populist, suffragist and transcendentalist movements.

   • 2024 November 12, Dionne Searcey, “Was the Trump Election a Setback for Women? Even Women Do Not Agree.”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 November 2024:

     In examples that start from the nation’s earliest days — through suffragist movements, racial integration and the legalization of abortion — some of the biggest opponents of women’s rights have been women.

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