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▪ I. pre-election, n.|priːɪˈlɛkʃən|
Also præ-.
[pre- A. 1, 5. Cf. obs. F. préeslection (Godef.).]
†1. Choice of one person or thing in preference to others; selection, preference. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xii[i]. (Arb.) 131 We must needes say, it was in many of their wordes done by pre⁓election in the first Poetes. 1611A. Stafford Niobe 61 A free præelection, is not but a good, nor a free shunning but of euil. 1629Maxwell tr. Herodian iii. 163 Antonine, taking small ioy in those Nuptialls, whereto hee was forcibly yoked, without any præ-election of his owne, infinitely hated both the young Lady and her Father.
2. Previous choice; an anticipatory election.
1611Florio, Preelettione, pre-election, fore-chusing. a1639Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 453 We shall satisfie His Majestie with a pre-Election, and yours shall have my first nomination. 1715H. Prideaux in Life (1748) 212 No such pre⁓elections shall be henceforth made in any College. 1830J. H. Monk Life R. Bentley (1833) II. 257 That three scholars should be taken from Westminster every year, and that they should never be prejudiced by pre-elections. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 596 He does not speak directly of predestination, but of præelection to temporal goods.
▪ II. pre-election, adj. phr.|priːɪˈlɛkʃən|
[f. pre- B. 1 + election.]
Occurring or given before a parliamentary (or other) election.
1893Chicago Advance 16 Mar., The President..refused to compromise himself by any pre-election pledges. 1896Atlantic Monthly Feb. 207 Some of the preëlection tests of statesmanship. 1898Westm. Gaz. 16 May 3/1 Maybe Mr. Chamberlain was remembering his pre-election promises. |