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noun

Election n.

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

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."

Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. "By his own election led to ill."

Discriminating choice; discernment. (Obs.) "To use men with much difference and election is good."

(Theol.) 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."

(Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

Those who are elected. (Obs.) "The election hath obtained it."

To contest an election. See under Contest.

To make one's election, to choose. "He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths."

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"Election" Quotes from Famous Books

... sternly to him: 'Now sir, you have to whip me as you threatened or quit cursing me, or I will put you in the river and baptize you in the name of the devil, for you surely belong to him.' This settled him and, strange to say, when election day came he voted for me, and has been my friend ...

— The Kentucky Ranger • Edward T. Curnick

... this was the outgrowth of Australian politics. "Every town in Australia," said he, "is desirous of having some of the public money spent within its limits. It wants a courthouse, jail, or some other public edifice, and in order to secure his election to the legislature, a candidate is compelled to promise that he will obtain the desired appropriation. These appropriations are secured by what you call in America 'logrolling.' That is, Smith of one town makes an arrangement with Brown, Jones, ...

— The Land of the Kangaroo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent • Thomas Wallace Knox

... the elective system in the same way. There has been a considerable revulsion of opinion against unrestricted election of individual subjects. In many colleges the subjects of the curriculum were arranged into groups which must be elected in toto. This resulted in the multiplication of bachelor's degrees, each indicating the special ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... chief incidents in that remarkable fight which Arthur Dillon had waged in behalf of his people: the interview before the election of Birmingham, ... the intrigues in London, the dexterous maneuvers which had wrecked the campaign against the Irish, had silenced McMeeter, stunned the Bishop, banished Fritters, ruined Sister Claire, tumbled him from his lofty position, and cut off ...

— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... all effects in our complex modern State are complex, but in this particular matter there can be little doubt that the key to the difficulty lies in the crudity and simplicity of our method of election, a method which reduces our apparent free choice of rulers to a ridiculous selection between undesirable alternatives, and hands our whole public life over to the specialised manipulator. Our House of Commons could scarcely ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

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