suffrage

noun

• 1 [mass noun] the right to vote in political elections: universal adult suffrage [as modifier]:the women’s suffrage movement
• [count noun] archaic a vote given in assent to a proposal or in favour of the election of a particular person: the suffrages of the community

• 2 (usually suffrages) (in the Book of Common Prayer) the intercessory petitions pronounced by a priest in the Litany.
• a series of petitions pronounced by the priest with the responses of the congregation.
• archaic intercessory prayers, especially those for the dead.