Word definition: election

Etimology


From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“I pluck out, I choose”). Equivalent to elect +‎ -ion.

noun


election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)

A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

An option that is selected.

(archaic) Any conscious choice.

(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

(obsolete) Those who are elected.

Examples


The parliamentary election will be held in March.

How did you vote in the last election?

That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.

The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.

W-4 election

Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.

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 […]

[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]

The election hath obtained it.

Related words


synonyms

(theology): chosenness

hyponyms

direct election

general election

indirect election

primary election

snap election

related terms

elect

election of remedies

election theft

elective

elector

electoral

electorate

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