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Meaning of "suffragettism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUFFRAGETTISM

ˌsʌfrəˈdʒetɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUFFRAGETTISM

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Suffragettism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SUFFRAGETTISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of suffragettism in the English dictionary

The definition of suffragettism in the dictionary is militant advocacy of the extension of the franchise to women, as in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUFFRAGETTISM

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUFFRAGETTISM

suffocating · suffocatingly · suffocation · suffocative · Suffolk · Suffolk punch · Suffr. · suffragan · suffraganship · suffrage · suffragette · suffragette movement · suffragism · suffragist · suffruticose · suffumigate · suffumigation · suffuse · suffusion · suffusive

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUFFRAGETTISM

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Synonyms and antonyms of suffragettism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «suffragettism» into 25 languages

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Trends of use of suffragettism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUFFRAGETTISM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about suffragettism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUFFRAGETTISM»

Discover the use of suffragettism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to suffragettism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the ...
An imaginary figure representing Lewis's modernist and masculine ideal, Cantleman is his paradoxical answer to the practical challenges that suffragettism posed to establishment art. The newspapers, as the nation's 'grand messengers of ...
Deaglán Ó Donghaile, 2011
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Reading Saki: The Fiction of H.H. Munro
Suchstaunch, organized opposition to English masculinity only showsupits failures, as suggested inthe government's and police'soften hysterical, unnecessarily violent quelling of suffragettism.20 Suffragettes seemed, asMunroand others ...
Brian Gibson, 2014
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Dictionary of Modern Political Ideologies
Suffragettism implied rowdy mass demonstrations, assaults on policemen, campaigns of window breaking, and other kinds of violent behaviour used to try to frighten or bludgeon authorities into granting extreme demands. Suffragettism was ...
Michael A. Riff, 1990
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The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
Richard Chase argues, "May not Bertha, Jane seems to ask herself, be a living example of what happens to a woman who gives herself to the Romantic Hero, who in her insane suffragettism tries herself to play the Hero, to be the fleshly vessel ...
Carol A. Senf, 1988
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Origins of English literary modernism, 1870-1914
They did not, as might be expected, propose a parallel revolution to suffragettism. Theirs was a social movement interested in personal emancipation for women but it did not hoist political claims — although in some New Woman publications,  ...
Gregory Tague, 2009
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Religion in Late Modernity
We know that Emerson's period was optimistic and expansionist, and that he and the culture for which he spoke did not appreciate the depths of the problems addressed in their abolitionism and suffragettism. But viewed in com- parison with ...
Robert C. Neville, 2012
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Modernism and Race
... 140 Stephen Lawrence Trust 17 Stephens, Michelle 136 Stewart, Victoria 199 St Francis 39 Stoker, Bram Dracula 24 Stoney, Johnstone 66 St Patrick 177–81 suffragettism 48, 103 Sweeney, Carole 2 Swinburne, A. C. 168 Taoism 184 Tate,  ...
Len Platt, 2011
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Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture ...
One could say that the recourse to this mythic pattern, even on Griffith's part, was precisely a reaction to events (such as suffragettism, or the rise of the New Woman) in the social formation. But that suggests too simplistic a relationship between ...
E. Ann Kaplan, 2013
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Savage Grace: The True Story of a Doomed Family
But my grandfather could not stand her music—that “noise”—and her theosophy, suffragettism, the Prospect House with Harry Hopkins, later an FDR eminence grise, and suchlike “nonsense.” Nor, she had more than once hinted to me, the fact ...
Natalie Robins, Steven M.L. Aronson, 2008
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Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema
Judith's own stern presence, virile and defeminised despite her female trappings of seduction, demands a historicised reading as the representative of militant moral feminism and suffragettism posed against, and destroying by a mixture of ...
Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans, 1993

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUFFRAGETTISM»

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Gang-gang. 100 Years Ago. Suffragettes bombarded with dead cats …
"But the Ministers remaining always inexorable to feminine beauty, and irrefutable feminine logic, suffragettism, like other suppressed diseases, took a virulent ... «The Canberra Times, May 14»
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Psychobitches, Sky Arts 1/ Up the Women, BBC One
It's 1910, and one of BICC's members, Margaret (Hynes) has been seduced by Suffragettism while on a day trip to London. The group's self-appointed ... «The Arts Desk, Jun 13»
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As Suzi Quatro blasts raunchy modern popstars, Julie Burchill …
Did Lennox feel she held the balance of a century of suffragettism in her hands when she used to strip down to a red bra onstage? Granted, the spectacle was ... «Daily Mail, Nov 12»
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Opponents of the cause
She wrote of the “degenerate days of militant suffragettism and similar foolishness if not actual wickedness”. The harshness of political life was not compatible ... «Irish Times, Oct 12»
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Hysteria Directed by Tanya Wexler In the next room, or: the vibrator …
They shade the story with a healthy heaping of suffragettism, primarily in the person of Charlotte Darlymple (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the doctor's other daughter. «Washington City Paper, May 12»
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Titanic episode 1 review
Lady G is about the closest thing Titanic has thus far to a warrior princess, what with her suffragettism and love of “writers and rebels angry at their fellow-man's ... «Den Of Geek, Mar 12»
REFERENCE
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