elect
/ɪˈlɛkt/ noun B1- One chosen or set apart.
- In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
Plural elects
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And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne Shirley, who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul, hampered as she was by Marilla’s disapproval.
Franz de Quesnel, baron d’Épinay.” He, as well as the notary, that there might be no mistake in the person, gave all his titles to the bridegroom elect.
But we have forgotten to mention one circumstance, which nevertheless ought not to be omitted; in one of the rooms he crossed, the trousseau of the bride-elect was on exhibition.
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