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elector

elector is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
  2. 2.In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
  3. 3.One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.
  4. 4.Pertaining to an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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