[-ING2.]
† 1. Votive, dedicatory. Obs.–1
1630. Hakewill, Apol. (ed. 2), 293. With Scythicke piety their aged Sier Let striplings tumble from the voting bridge.
2. That possesses or exercises the right of suffrage.
1830. Jas. Mill, in A. Bain, Life, vii. (1882), 351. They are the class by whom chiefly the moral character of the voting classes is formed.
1837. W. E. Forster, in T. W. Reid, Life (1888), I. 93. I saw some dreadful cases of voting drunken people, both Whig and Tory.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., V. lxxxviii. III. 194. The voting population seemed determined to give its whole attention to the Ring for one day at least.
