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electivo
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby, For his Conscience could not but whi…
Man thus endued with an elective voice, Must be supplied with objects of his choice.
electivo
Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
After accounting for all of my required courses, there is hardly any room in my schedule for any elective ones.
[…] his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot,…
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