electionとは

発音

• enPR: ĭ-lĕk'shən, IPA^(key): /ɪˈlekʃ(ə)n/
• 韻: -ɛkʃən

名詞

election (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 elections)

1. A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

   The parliamentary elections will be held in March.

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.

2. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

   The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.

3. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , II.20:

     Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.

   • Francis Bacon

     To use men with much difference and election is good.

   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     The 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 […]

4. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
5. (obsolete) Those who are elected.
   • Bible, Rom. xi. 7

     The election hath obtained it.

同意語

• (theology): chosenness

下位語

• direct election
• general election
• indirect election
• primary election
• snap election

派生語

• by-election
• electioneer
• electioneering

関連する語

参考

• psephology

参考

• Election on Wikipedia.
• Predestination on Wikipedia.