women's rightern.
/ˌwɪmɪnz ˈrʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈˌwɪmᵻnz ˈraɪdər/ An advocate or supporter of women's rights; a feminist.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > opposition to > advocate or supporter of
sister1792
-righter1854
woman's righter1854
new woman1865
woman's rightist1869
women's righter1870
femininist1873
women's rightist1875
liberationist1879
emancipatress1882
feminist1887
freewoman1895
equal righter1896
womanist1902
women liberator1969
women's libber1970
libber1971
1870 Harper's Mag. Dec. 158/2 An old ‘gent’ rose to give her a seat, but asked, ‘Be ye one of those women's righters?’
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Feb. 3/2 Women's righters in Germany.
1916 M. Thompson Persuasive Peggy xxxi. 256 Do y' mean to say that Peggy and Tom Wilmers' wife have turned women's righters?
1982 Times 16 Oct. 7/6 Mr Bradley has a broad consensus of groups supporting him. They include blacks and Hispanics, liberals, women's righters, nuclear freezers and environmentalists.
2008 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 5 Sept. You'd think women's-righters would be dancing in the streets, especially with the revelation of a teen pregnancy in the Palin family.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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