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Elect vs Elected - What's the difference?

elect | elected |

As nouns the difference between elect and elected

is that elect is one chosen or set apart while elected is one who is elected.

As verbs the difference between elect and elected

is that elect is to choose or make a decision (to do something) while elected is (elect).

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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    elected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (elect)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is elected.
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