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Suffrage vs Frenchise - What's the difference?

suffrage | frenchise |

As nouns the difference between suffrage and frenchise

is that suffrage is (uncountable) the right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision while frenchise is .

suffrage

English

(wikipedia suffrage)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision.
  • (countable) A vote in deciding a particular question.
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  • The right to vote for elected officials in a representative democracy.
    • universal suffrage''''', ''women's '''suffrage''''', ''negro '''suffrage
  • (US) The right of women to vote.
  • (countable, Christianity) A prayer, for example a prayer offered for the faithful dead.
  • * (Shipley)
  • * (rfdate) Creed of Pope Pius IV
    • I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
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  • (countable, Christianity) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
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  • (uncountable) Aid, intercession.
  • Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
  • * Atterbury
    • Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers.
  • * South
    • Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "suffrage")

    Synonyms

    * (right to vote) franchise

    Related terms

    * suffragist * suffragette * universal suffrage ----

    frenchise

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1857 , Reports of cases at law and in equity argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Arkansas, Volume 17 , B.J. Borden, page 408:
    • ... the clerk of the Sebastian Circuit Court issued a writ of quo warranto , against the appellee, Raphael M. Johnson, requiring him to show by what authority or warrant, he exercises the office and frenchise of Mayor of the City of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian, in this State.
  • * 2008 , Steven Hahn, Land and labor, 1865 , University of North Carolina Press, page 472:
    • Meetings of Freemen legally & peaceably assembled to Petition Congress for the Elective Frenchise not to be taken away by law, ...