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Definition of Suffrages
1. suffrage [n] - See also: suffrage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffrages
Literary usage of Suffrages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"jority of expressed suffrages. The scrutiny for this nomination is daily examined,
... He who has obtained the absolute majority of the suffrages of the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Miss Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and "George Eliot" almost, if not quite, equal
any men who can be set against them. The suffrages of the many would no doubt ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The superior virtues of Sallust could alone reconcile their divisions and unite
their suffrages; and the venerable praefect would immediately have been ..."
4. Publications (1848)
"... wherein the servants of God these many hundred years have been fast asleep,
superstition and persecution have had more suffrages and votes from God's ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"suffrages, or opinions formed by the several members of the Public-Opinion ...
suffrages. Understand by suffrages, the opinions produced in the minds of the ..."
6. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... in regard to the adoption or rejection of this constitution; and it shall be
the duty of said officers to receive the suffrages of all qualified voters. ..."
7. Publications by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"That we believe it impracticable to maintain republican institutions based upon
the suffrages of negroes, Chinese, and Indians, and that the doctrines ..."
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