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1629 G. Carleton Collegiat Suffrage ii. 31 This non-election, we avow to be grounded vpon the most free will of God.

1650 Most Glorious Representation Incomparable Free Grace of Christ 13 That non-election doth effect and force us out of salvation.

1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. vii. 325 These suspitions of Non-election prevailing, all Promises and Comforts are urged in vain.

1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis vii. 100 The emptiness of the pleas, which some urge in favour of unconditional reprobation, or, if you please, non-election.

1850 J. McClintock in R. Watson Theol. Inst. p. lx We deny..that unbelief and ruin follow in like manner non-election.

1872 J. H. Blunt Dict. Doctrinal & Hist. Theol. 102 The teaching of Calvin on Predestination may be summed up in what are called the Five Points... These are: Election (and non-election, or reprobation), [etc.]

1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 47 As a matter of abstract doctrine there has to be a state of non-election.

1801 T. Jefferson Let. 21 Mar. in Writings (1984) 1086 I have been, above all things, solaced by the prospect which opened on us, in the event of a non-election of a President.

1850 P. W. Chandler Charter & Ordinances of Boston 8 In case of the non-election of a mayor, the chairman of the board of aldermen shall discharge all the duties incumbent on the mayor.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 102/1 In later time neither Alphonse Daudet nor Edmond de Goncourt..has been among the forty immortals. The non-election..of the scholar Fustel de Coulanges is less easy to account for.

1948 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 42 331 The elective terms of all non-permanent members had expired by 1946 and their present tenure was technically due to the non-election of their successors.

1990 R. Pethybridge One Step Backwards, Two Steps Forward v. 186 At least, after the outcome of the Civil War and the suppression of all other parties, the Bolsheviks no longer feared non-election.