election : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: election	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for election
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
election n a vote to select the winner of a position or political office; "the results of the election will be announced tonight" the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a profession" the status or fact of being elected; "they celebrated his election" the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Election \Elec"tion\, n. [F. [82]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. [bd]By his own election led to ill.[b8] --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 [bd]five points[b8] 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.