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Definition of Preelect
1. to elect or choose beforehand [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preelect
Literary usage of Preelect
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1871)
"Commodus was made a Divus by Severus, (Dodwell, preelect . viii . p. 324, 325.)
Yet he occurs only twice ..."
2. The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets by Vida Dutton Scudder (1895)
"This is that blessed Mary, preelect God's Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she
Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee. Unto God's will she brought devout ..."
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