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Elect vs Electability - What's the difference?

elect | electability |

As nouns the difference between elect and electability

is that elect is one chosen or set apart while electability is the capability of a candidate to be elected.

As a verb elect

is to choose or make a decision (to do something).

As an adjective elect

is (used only after the noun) who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

elect

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • One chosen or set apart.
  • (uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
  • * Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
    • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
  • * Bible, Luke xviii. 7
    • Shall not God avenge his won elect ?

    Antonyms

    * reprobate

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To choose or make a decision (to do something)
  • To choose (a candidate) in an election

    • Related terms

    * election * elective * elite * select * selection * selective

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (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 .
  • Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
  • * Spenser
    • colours quaint elect
  • * Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
    • the elect angels

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    electability

    English

    Noun

    (electabilities)
  • The capability of a candidate to be elected.
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 18, David M. Halbfinger And Jeremy W. Peters, Would-Be Senators Describe Job Interview With the Governor, New York Times citation
    • , passage=That applicant, the aide said, focused on electability and appeal to voters in all 62 counties of New York, and spoke not only of retaining the seat, but of delivering votes for Mr. Paterson. “We figured that the major frame that he’s looking through in this is his own re-election in 2010,” the aide said. }}

    Related terms

    *electable *elect