Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

Glossary

• candid impartial
• chastisement discipline, especially physical punishment
• constrains forces; compels
• covenant formal agreement of legal validity
• disfranchisement denial of a right, especially the right to vote
• franchise the right to vote
• hitherto up to this time; until now
• impunity immunity from punishment
• inalienable incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
• Jehovah a name for God in the Old Testament
• prerogative exclusive entitlement
• prudence caution regarding practical matters
• remuneration payment or consideration received for services or employment
• sufferance capacity to endure hardship
• supposition an assumption
• usurped used without authority or right; employed wrongfully