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Webster 1913 Edition


Election

E-lec′tion

,
Noun.
[F.
élection
, L.
electio
, fr.
eligere
to choose out. See
Elect
,
Adj.
]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Election

ELEC'TION

,
Noun.
[L. electio.] The act of choosing; choice; the act of selecting one or more from others. Hence appropriately,
1.
The act of choosing a person to fill an office or employment, by any manifestation of preference, as by ballot, uplifted hands or viva voce; as the election of a king, of a president, or a mayor.
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
2.
Choice; voluntary preference; free will; liberty to act or not. It is at his election to accept or refuse.
3.
Power of choosing or selecting.
4.
Discernment; discrimination; distinction.
To use men with much difference and election is good.
5.
In theology, divine choice; predetermination of God, by which persons are distinguished as objects of mercy, become subjects of grace, are sanctified and prepared for heaven.
There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom.11.
6.
The public choice of officers.
7.
The day of a public choice of officers.
8.
Those who are elected.
The election hath obtained it. Rom.11.

Definition 2024


êlection

êlection

See also: election and élection

Norman

Noun

êlection f (plural êlections)

  1. (Jersey) election