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elect

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1. elect - Noun

2. elect - Adjective

3. elect - Verb

4. elect - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.

Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

Those who are chosen for salvation.

To pick out; to select; to choose.

To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anaïs Nin

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. Ernest Renan

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect. Harry Hopkins

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. Jules Verne

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years. Ferdinand Marcos

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. Guy de Maupassant

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