Election

Definition of Election

E`lec´tion
n.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.
4.Discriminating choice; discernment.
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.
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.

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