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Definition of Election

1. Noun. A vote to select the winner of a position or political office. "The results of the election will be announced tonight"

2. Noun. The act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice. "Her election of medicine as a profession"

3. Noun. The status or fact of being elected. "They celebrated his election"

4. Noun. The predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists).

Definition of Election

1. n. The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Definition of Election

1. the act of electing [n -S]

Medical Definition of Election

1. 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection. 2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. "Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom." (J. Adams) 3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. "By his own election led to ill." 4. Discriminating choice; discernment. "To use men with much difference and election is good." (Bacon) 5. Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; one of the "five points" of Calvinism. "There is a remnant according to the election of grace." (Rom. Xi. 5) 6. The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. 7. Those who are elected. "The election hath obtained it." (Rom. Xi. 7) To contest an election. See Contest. To make one's election, to choose. "He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths." (Fitzed. Hall) Origin: F. Election, L. Electio, fr. Eligere to choose out. See Elect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Election

elecampanes elect elect elect(ip) electabilities electability electable electary elected elected official

electee electees electer electing election (current term) election (current term) electioneer electioneered electioneerer electioneerers

electioneering electioneers elections election commission election day election district election fraud elective elective electively

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