0 someone who supports the right of people to vote in elections, especially a supporter of the right of women to vote in the early 20th century -- sufrażyst-a/ka
The suffragists seem ill-content with this limitation of our powers.
Suffragists believed in women's suffrage, but did not believe in blowing up post offices, and so on, in order to achieve it.
For example, there was the suffragist movement when women were sent to prison and were considered outcasts.
It equalises approximately by levelling up or levelling down, and it bases itself on population rather than on electorates—no question into which suffragists need come.
Fourteen women suffragist prisoners are refusing their food at the present time, and five of these are being forcibly fed.
It is not a question of suffragists, or anti-suffragists, or of rich or poor.
Commitment to the empire also formed a shared ideological space for suffragists and 'antis ', though they drew different political conclusions from their commitments to women as privileged empire-builders.
Thompson found that opportunities existed there for promoting co-operation between repealers and suffragists.
