[f. SUFFRAGE + -IST.] An advocate of the extension of the political franchise, esp. (since about 1885) to women. Often with prefixed word (cf. SUFFRAGE sb. 11 b), as complete suffragist, universal suffragist, woman suffragist.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 156. If they come back Universal Suffragists, we offer to turn Radicals.
1845. Tait’s Mag., XII. 67. The Complete-suffragists, will say, that … the League are practically admitting the truth of what they have always urged…. Which … furnishes one reason the more why the Suffragists should help the League.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Oct., 5. The anti-negro-suffragists in Connecticut.
1883. American, VI. 7. The most persistent suffragist claims no more than this.
1900. N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg., Suppl. cxxi. The cause of the woman suffragists.
1914. Daily Mail, 8 June, 6/6. I am a woman and a suffragist.
