votes

Noun

vote (plural votes)

1. A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
   • The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
2. An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
   • The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.
3. (obsolete) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
   • Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late...
4. (obsolete) A formalized petition or request.
5. (obsolete) Any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view.
6. Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published.
   • dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)

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