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suffrage
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[ˈsʌfrɪdʒ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the right to vote in political elections
(e.g: universal adult suffrage)
- (in the Book of Common Prayer) the intercessory petitions pronounced by a priest in the Litany
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘intercessory prayers’, also ‘assistance’): from Latin suffragium, reinforced by French suffrage. The modern sense of ‘right to vote’ was originally US (dating from the late 18th century)
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