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unelected en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English elected English unelected From un- + elected.

Meanings

1. Not elected.
   • “We need elections that we can trust, that we can believe in,” GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday at a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa. “That means yes, unelected judges are not going to decide willy-nilly across the state who ends up on a ballot and who doesn’t.” 2023 December 20, Marshall Cohen, “Fact check: Are Colorado Supreme Court justices ‘unelected,’ as GOP has claimed?”, in CNN:

Forms

Deriveds

unelectedness · unelectedly

unelected en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unelect
   form of unelect