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            "mean": "A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.\nThe parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.\nHow did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?\n2012 November 7,  Matt Bai,  \u201cWinning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds\u201d, in  New York Times\u200e:That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama\u2019s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past."
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            "mean": "The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.\nThe election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal."
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            "mean": "(archaic) Any conscious choice.\n1603,  Michel de Montaigne,  chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes\u00a0, book II, London:    Val Simmes for Edward Blount\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.\n1625,  Francis ,  \u201cOf Followers and Friends\u201d, in  The Essayes\u00a0, 3rd edition, London:    Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, \u2192OCLC:To use men with much difference and election is good.\n1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress\nThe predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character"
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            "mean": "(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.\n1684,  John Bunyan,  A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London:    B. W. for Benj Alsop,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 3:e  laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the \u017ftedfa\u017ftne\u017fs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becau\u017fe grounded on his foreknowledge;"
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            "mean": "(obsolete) Those who are elected.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,\u00a0 (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, Romans 11:7:The election hath obtained it."
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