elect

elect

1. (vain substantiivin jälkeen) valittu; vastavalittu

Esimerkkejä:

the President ~ vastavalittu presidentti

Liittyvät sanat: electorate

Synonyymisanakirja

elect

tuleva, saapuva, vastavalittu, valittu, eliitti-, parhaimmisto, valita, ottaa, valikoida, poimia, päättää.

Englannin sanakirja

elect (englanti > suomi)

1. valita, päättää

2. valita

3. vastavalittu, tuleva

elect englanniksi

1. One chosen or set apart.

2. puhekieltä In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.

3. Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1

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

4. Bible, Luke xviii. 7

Shall not God avenge his won elect?

5. puhekieltä To choose or make a decision (to do something)

6. puhekieltä To choose (a candidate) in an election

7. puhekieltä Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

He is the President elect.

8. 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.

9. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

10. Spenser

colours quaint elect

11. Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21

the elect angels

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