election

1. a. The act of choosing; choice; selection. Source: opted

2. a. 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. Source: opted

3. a. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. Source: opted

4. a. Discriminating choice; discernment. Source: opted

5. a. Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. Source: opted

6. a. The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. Source: opted

7. a. Those who are elected. Source: opted

8. n. a vote to select the winner of a position or political office Source: wordnet

9. n. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice Source: wordnet

10. n. the status or fact of being elected Source: wordnet

11. n. the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists) Source: wordnet

12. 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. Source: webster

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