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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Election \E*lec"tion\, n. [F. ['e]lection, L. electio, fr eligere to choose out See {Elect}, a.] 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.'' --Daniel. 4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.] To use men with much difference and election is good. --Bacon. 5. (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. --Rom. xi 5. 6. (Law) 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. [Obs.] The election hath obtained it --Rom. xi 7. {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. --Fitzed. Hall. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: election n 1: a vote to select the winner of a political office 2: the act of selecting someone "many candidates ran for election"
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