Election vs Lection - What's the difference?
election | lection |
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.}}
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
(archaic) Any conscious choice.
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* Francis Bacon
(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
(obsolete) Those who are elected.
* Bible, Rom. xi. 7
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
* 1885', This man [...] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his '''lections of the Koran — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 13
As nouns the difference between election and lection
is that election is election while lection is (obsolete) the act of reading.election
English
(Election)Noun
(en noun)- The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
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- The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election .
- To use men with much difference and election is good.
- The election hath obtained it.