Pronunciation Noun
election
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors
or other representatives by popular vote. - The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
- The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- An option that is selected.
- W-4 election
- (archaic) Any conscious choice.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends
- To use men with much difference and election is good.
- The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- (obsolete) Those who are elected.
- Bible, Rom. xi. 7
- The election hath obtained it.
- Bible, Rom. xi. 7
- (theology) chosenness
- Russian: вы́бор
- Spanish: elección
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