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 E·lec·tion 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. “By his own election led to ill.”
 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 “five points” 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.
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