Word Meanings - SUFFRAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The right to vote; franchise. (more info) broken piece, a potsherd, used in voting, and fr. sub under + the 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;

Additional info about word: SUFFRAGE

The right to vote; franchise. (more info) broken piece, a potsherd, used in voting, and fr. sub under + the 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. A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong. A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed. Shipley. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUFFRAGE)

• Voice
• Tone
• utterance
• language
• articulation
• words
• expression
• signification
• opinion
• vote
• suffrage
• say
• control

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUFFRAGE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to SUFFRAGE)

• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• CONTROL
  contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
• LICENSE
  fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin 1. Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business,
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• SIGNIFICATION
  1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. A signification of being pleased. Landor. All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. South. 2. That which is signified or made known;
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• VOICEFUL
  Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• ABANDONER
  One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• ABARTICULATION
  Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• INARTICULATION
  Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• UNCONTROLLABLE
  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness,
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.