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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?l?ctus, past participle of ?lig? (“to pick out, choose, elect”), from ?- (“out”) + leg? (“to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.”); see legend.

Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ?? (ek), rather than e- (from ex).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt/, /i??l?kt/
• Hyphenation: elect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

elect (plural elects or elect)

1. One chosen or set apart.
2. (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.

   • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

   • Shall not God avenge his won elect?

Antonyms

• reprobate

Derived terms

• president-elect

Translations

Verb

elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
2. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election

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Adjective

elect (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   He is the President elect.
2. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
   • the elect angels

Translations

Further reading

• elect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• elect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ?lecti?n-, stem of ?lecti? (“choice, selection”), from ?lig? (“I pluck out, I choose”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-l?k'sh?n, IPA^(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: elect?ion

Noun

election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)

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

   The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.

   How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
2. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

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

3. An option that is selected.

4. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends

     To use men with much difference and election is good.

   • 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress

     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 […]

5. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
6. (obsolete) Those who are elected.

   • The election hath obtained it.

Synonyms

• (theology): chosenness

Hyponyms

• direct election
• general election
• indirect election
• primary election
• snap election

Derived terms

• by-election
• electioneer
• electioneering
• pre-election, preelection

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Translations

See also

• psephology

See also

• Election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Predestination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle French

Noun

election f (plural elections)

1. choice; selection (person, object that is selected)
2. election (act or process of being elected to an office)