Elect vs Follow - What's the difference?
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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
* Bible, Luke xviii. 7
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
* Spenser
* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
To go or come after in a sequence.
To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
To understand, to pay attention to.
To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
To be a logical consequence of.
To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
* Shakespeare
Elect is a related term of follow.
In lang=en terms the difference between elect and follow
is that elect is to choose (a candidate) in an election while follow is to walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.As verbs the difference between elect and follow
is that elect is to choose or make a decision (to do something) while follow is to go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.As a noun elect
is one chosen or set apart.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)- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
- Shall not God avenge his won elect ?
Antonyms
* reprobateVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- He is the President-elect .
- 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 .
- colours quaint elect
- the elect angels
External links
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English
Verb
(en verb)- We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow .
- O, had I but followed the arts!
