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n. The act or power of electing.

n. The fact of being elected.

n. The right or ability to make a choice. See Synonyms at choice.

n. Predestined salvation, especially as conceived by Calvinists.

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

n. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

n. Any conscious choice.

n. In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

n. The act of choosing; choice; selection.

n. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce.

n. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

n. Discriminating choice; discernment.

n. Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the “five points” of Calvinism.

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

n. Those who are elected.

n. A deliberate act of choice; particularly, a choice of means for accomplishing a given end.

n. The choice of a person or persons for office of any kind by the voting of a body of qualified or authorized electors.

n. The act or process of choosing a person or persons for office by vote; a polling for office; also, the occasion or set time and provision for making such choice: as, a general or a special election; American elections are generally held in autumn.

n. Hence By extension, a public vote upon a proposition submitted; a poll for the decision by vote of any public matter or question: as, to hold an election on a new constitution, or on a measure referred by the legislature to the people. [U.S.]

n. Discernment; discrimination; distinction.

n. In theology: The choice by God of particular individuals either to be the recipients of his grace and of eternal life, or to be commissioned for a particular work.

n. Those who are elected by God to eternal life.

n. In astrology, a reason for choosing one time rather than another for an undertaking; a preference of times. See root, n.

n. In mathematics, a part or the whole of a number of distinguishable objects.

n. the status or fact of being elected

n. a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

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

n. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice

"The cause alleged for this unmanly, base, cowardly outrage, is some expressions which occurred in an election squib, printed at this office, and extensively circulated through the county, _before the election_."

position    status    foreordination    predestination    preordination    predetermination   

supervisors of election    primary election    elections (hours of poll) act    weak election    age of election    judge of election    disseizin by election    place of election   

elect    elector    electorate    elective    electoral   

election theft    electioneer    general election    by-election    primary election    electioneering    election of remedies   

choice    selection    discernment    by-election    predestination   

advection    affection    circumspection    collection    complexion    confection    connection    convection    correction    defection   

Politics & Government   

vote    campaign    government    council    meeting    decision    appointment    administration    education    trial