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Word Meanings - ELECTORALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. Sir H. Wotton.

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  • ELECTORATE
    1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
  • ELECTORESS
    An electress. Bp. Burnet.
  • DIGNITY
    digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
  • ELECTORSHIP
    The office or status of an elector.
  • ELECTORALITY
    The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. Sir H. Wotton.
  • TERRITORY
    1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or
  • ELECTOR
    1. One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office. 2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote. 3. In the old
  • ELECTORIAL
    Electoral. Burke.
  • INDIGNITY
    Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So
  • CONDIGNITY
    Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.
  • PRELECTOR
    A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.
  • SELECTOR
    One who selects.

 

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