suffrage
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suffrage /ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/
▶noun
- 1 the right to vote in political elections.
■ archaic a vote given for a person or in assent to a proposal.
- 2 (suffrages) (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.
■ archaic intercessory prayers, especially those for the dead.
– origin ME: from L. suffragium, reinforced by Fr. suffrage.
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