elective
/ɪˈlɛktɪv/
elective
English
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Definition
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
Etymology
From elect + -ive.
Example Sentences
- "1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby, For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:"
- "Man thus endued with an elective voice, Must be supplied with objects of his choice."
- "[…] they rested their hopes of redress on the independent use of their elective franchise;"
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