To use men with much difference and election is good.
Bacon.
5. (Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom. xi. 5.
6. (Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.