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self-eˈlection [self- 1 a.] Election of oneself by oneself.
1790Bystander 129 Whether or not Alexander was conscious that this self election..would not equally hold good with posterity. 1835Penny Cycl. III. 476/1 Their weakness..lay in the system of self-election of those magistrates. So self-eˈlecting ppl. a., self-eˈlective a., having the right of electing oneself.
1787Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 228 The violent Aristocrats would have wished..that these [the Regents] should remain self-elective. 1855Bagehot in National Rev. Oct. 271 In the towns, the franchise belonged to a close and self-electing corporation. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. ix. 728 Boroughs constituted with self-elective Councils. 1980D. Francis Reflex vii. 76 That they [sc. the Jockey Club] were also self-electing meant in practice that the members were almost all..upper-class. |