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Elects vs Lects - What's the difference?

elects | lects |

As a verb elects

is (elect).

As a noun lects is

.

elects

English

Verb

(head)
  • (elect)

    • Anagrams

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    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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    lects

    English

    Noun

    (head)