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Suffrage vs Protest - What's the difference?

suffrage | protest |

As nouns the difference between suffrage and protest

is that suffrage is the right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision while protest is a formal objection, especially one by a group.

As a verb protest is

to make a strong objection.

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 ----

    protest

    English

    (wikipedia protest)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To make a strong objection.
  • :
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  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
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  • (label) To affirm (something).
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  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I will protest your cowardice.
  • *1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
  • *:She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.
  • To object to.
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  • To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Fiercely [they] opposed / My journey strange, with clamorous uproar / Protesting fate supreme.
  • to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A formal objection, especially one by a group.
  • A collective gesture of disapproval: a demonstration.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}

    Synonyms

    * dissent * objection * protestation

    Derived terms

    * Protestant * protestation * protester * protest march * under protest

    Anagrams

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