elect

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Etymology [edit]

From Latin electus, past participle of eligere (to pick out, choose, elect), from e- (out) + legere (to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.); see legend.

Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ἐκ (ek), rather than e- (from ex).

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elect (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) (theology) In Calvinist theology, those foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies: someone chosen by God for salvation

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elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

  1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
  2. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election

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elect (not comparable)

  1. (used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
    He is the President-elect.
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 16
      She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.

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