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Nomination

noun

The act of officially naming a candidate.

The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election. "His nomination was hotly protested"

An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election. Synonyms: nominating address, nominating speech.

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"Nomination" Quotes from Famous Books

... will be elected. The other consists of "Nobles," who are nominated or created by the king for life, but have no title nor salary unless they are called to office. By the Constitution the reigning king appoints his successor, but his nomination must be confirmed by the Nobles. As, however, he may at pleasure increase the number of Nobles, the appointment virtually rests with him. If he dies without naming a successor, the Parliament has the right and duty to elect a ...

— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

... vacant, and the Duke of Grafton bestowed it upon Gray. A sum of 400 pounds per annum was thus added to his income; but his health was precarious—he had lost it, he said, just when he began to be easy in his circumstances. The nomination of the Duke of Grafton to the office of Chancellor of the University enabled Gray to acknowledge the favour conferred on himself. He thought it better that gratitude should sing than expectation, and he honoured his grace's installation ...

— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray

... he heard them. Three times in the days preceding the convention which had nominated Perry Haughton, the present governor, delegations from various sections of the state had visited Lawler at the Circle L, endeavoring to prevail upon him to accept the nomination; and one day the editor of the most important newspaper in the capital had journeyed to the Circle L, to add his voice to the argument ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

... time a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, he was defeated as candidate for the lower house of Congress, and in 1876 suffered the bitterest disappointment of his life, when the libellous attacks of enemies prevented the ratification of his nomination as ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... everything in them is precise and practical. The literary artist, therefore, is likely to find in them few things to attract him, and will be, to that extent, at a disadvantage as compared with those who have preceded him. There were days when the preliminary canvassing, the nomination and the polling days, had features which invited treatment on the stage or in print. The whole atmosphere of electioneering was different to that which now exists. Those involved in it went about their work with a reckless jollity productive ...

— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams

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