Careful Words

nomination (n.)

What imports the nomination of this gentleman?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

  In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 356.