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   suffrage

   /ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/

   noun

   • 1. the right to vote in political elections: "universal adult suffrage"
   • ▪ a vote given in assent to a proposal or in favour of the election of a particular person: archaic "the suffrages of the community"
   • 2. (in the Book of Common Prayer) the intercessory petitions pronounced by a priest in the Litany.
   • ▪ a series of petitions pronounced by the priest with the responses of the congregation.
   • ▪ intercessory prayers, especially those for the dead. archaic

   Word Origin 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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