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The act of choosing; choice; selection. |
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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. |
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Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. |
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Discriminating choice; discernment. |
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Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects
of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. |
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The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by
taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. |
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Those who are elected. |
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