Hypertext Webster Gateway: "election"

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) 1.7 (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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