chuse
See also: chūsè
English
Verb
chuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing or chuseing, simple past and past participle chused)
- Obsolete spelling of choose
- 1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred, page 298:
- Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome.
By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon
- 1739 David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II:
- Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse," said Mr. Bennet
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chuse.
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Middle English
Verb
chuse
- Alternative form of chesen