suffrage
suffrage
[ˈsʌfrɪdʒ]
noun
[ˈsʌfrɪdʒ]
noun
- [mass noun]the right to vote in political elections
选举权，投票权
■[count noun](archaic)a vote given in assent to a proposal or in favour of the election of a particular person
(古)赞成票；提名票 - (一般作 suffrages)(in the Book of Common Prayer) the intercessory petitions pronounced by a priest in the Litany
（《英国国教祈祷书》中的）代祷
■a series of petitions pronounced by the priest with the responses of the congregation
（牧师与信徒以一唱一和的方式所作的）祈求
■(archaic)intercessory prayers, especially those for the dead
(古)（尤指为死去的人所作的）代祈
- 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 cent.)
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