Election /(?)/

E·lec·tion

Election

n.
  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.
  4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.]
    To use men with much difference and election is good.
  5. Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the “five points” of Calvinism. (Theol.)
    There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
    — Rom. xi. 5.
  6. The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. (Law)
  7. Those who are elected. [Obs.]
    The election hath obtained it.
    — Rom. xi. 7.
    He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.
    — Fitzed. Hall.

Phrases & Compounds
To contest an election
See under Contest.
To make one's election
to choose.