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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englisheleccioun,eleccion, fromAnglo-Normaneleccioun, fromLatinēlectiōn-, stem ofēlectiō(“choice, selection”), fromēligō(“I pluck out, I choose”). Equivalent toelect +‎-ion.

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election (countable anduncountable,pluralelections)

  1. A process of choosing aleader,members ofparliament,councillors, or otherrepresentatives bypopularvote.
    The parliamentaryelection(s) will be held in March.
    How did you vote in (UK also: at) the lastelection?
    • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, inNew York Times‎[1]:
      That brief moment after theelection four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
  2. Thechoice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
    Theelection of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
  3. An option that is selected.
    W-4election
  4. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
    • 1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:
      Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth hiselection.
    • 1625,Francis [Bacon], “Of Followers and Friends”, inThe Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret,→OCLC:
      To use men with much difference andelection is good.
    • 1830,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:
      The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, orelections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character[…]
  5. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination ofsaints including all of theelect.
    • 1684, John Bunyan,A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: […] B. W. for Benj[amin] Alsop, […],→OCLC,page 3:
      [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfortTimothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree ofElection, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge;[…]
  6. (obsolete) Those who are elected.

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process of choosing a new leader or representatives by popular vote
choice of a leader or representatives
conscious choice

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election f (pluralelections)

  1. choice;selection (person, object that is selected)
  2. election(act or process of being elected to an office)
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