elects English
Verb
(head)
(elect)
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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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exects English
Verb
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