[f. next + -ISM.] The advocacy of an extension of the suffrage, e.g., to women (women’s suffragism).
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., xciii. III. 301. Women’s suffragism is thought ‘bad form.’
1908. Lit. Guide, 1 Aug., 123/2. He does, indeed, make a remark on feminine achievement in those spheres, but we dare not repeat it in this year of suffragism.
