Word Meanings - PREELECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Election beforehand.

Related words: (words related to PREELECTION)

• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• ELECTIONEER
  To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• ELECTION
  Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5. (more info) 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• REELECTION
  Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
• PREELECTION
  Election beforehand.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• BY-ELECTION
  An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
• NONELECTION
  Failure of election.