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Ratify vs Elect - What's the difference?

ratify | elect |

In lang=en terms the difference between ratify and elect

is that ratify is to give formal consent to; make officially valid while elect is to choose (a candidate) in an election.

As verbs the difference between ratify and elect

is that ratify is to give formal consent to; make officially valid while elect is to choose or make a decision (to do something).

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.

ratify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To give formal consent to; make officially valid.
  • Synonyms

    * (give formal consent to): approve

    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
  • 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