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countable and uncountable, plural elections
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote. quotations examples
That brief moment after the election 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.
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote. examples
An option that is selected. examples
(archaic) Any conscious choice. quotations
Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
To use men with much difference and election is good.
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Followers and Friends”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, 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 […]
1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress
(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect. quotations
[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
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, […], page 3
(obsolete) Those who are elected. quotations
The election hath obtained it.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Romans 11:7