Elect

/ɪˈlɛkt/ · noun

Meaning

One chosen or set apart..

Definitions by Sense

1. One chosen or set apart.
2. (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
3. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
4. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election.
5. (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
6. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

Example Sentences

Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

Shall not God avenge his won elect?

President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?

He is the President elect.

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.

colours quaint elect

the elect angels

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Word Forms

• elects
• elect
• electing
• elected

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