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ELECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to popular election
Example:
elective official
Synonyms:
elected; elective
Classified under:
Similar:
electoral (relating to or composed of electors)
nonappointive (filled by popular election rather than by appointment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb elect
Context examples:
But he did not have it in him to be angry with the love-master, and when that god elected to laugh at him in a good-natured, bantering way, he was nonplussed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But it was his concern that they leave him alone in his isolation, get out of his way when he elected to walk among them, and at all times acknowledge his mastery over them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
