Definition of "woman-suffrage" [woman-suffrage]

• The exercise of the electoral franchise by women. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He was once the apostle of a doctrine of disunion; he fervently believes in enforcing "total abstinence" by statute; he is the strenuous advocate of woman-suffrage."
• "She was even hopeful that the two woman-suffrage factions could now forget their differences and work together for "the living, vital issue of today -- freedom to women.""
• "Even more unforgivable than this to the abolitionist suffragists were the back-page advertisements of a new woman-suffrage paper, _The"