Suffrage

n.	1.	A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. I ask your voices and your suffrages. - Shak.
	2.	Testimony; attestation; witness; approval. Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers. - Atterbury. Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. - South.
	3.	(Eccl.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong. I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. - Creed of Pope Pius IV.
	4.	Aid; assistance.
	5.	The right to vote; franchise.
v. t.	1.	To vote for; to elect.

Noun

1.

suffrage - a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" Synonyms: right to vote, vote

SUFFRAGE, government. Vote; the act of voting.
     2. The right of suffrage is given by the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 2, to the electors in each state, as shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. Vide 2 Story on the Const. Sec. 578, et seq.; Amer. Citiz. 201; 1 Bl. Com. 171; 2 Wils. Lect. 130; Montesq. Esp. des Lois, Ii v. 11, c. 6; 1 Tucker's Bl. Com. App. 52, 3. See Division of opinion.

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