Election
Election , noun
[French élection, Latin electio, from 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.
3.
Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
By his own election led to ill.
4.
Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obsolete]
To use men with much difference and election is good.
5.
(Theology) 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.
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. [Obsolete]
The election hath obtained it.
He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.