chuse

chuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing or chuseing, simple past chused or chose, past participle chused or chosen)

1. 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.

   • 1785, [George Colman the Younger], Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. N^[sic] Turk and No Turk; a Musical Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market., London: […] T. Cadell, […], page 21:

     Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador!

   • 1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals., volume I, London: […] T. Cadell and W. Davies, […], page 299:

     But if the Almighty choſe to eſtabliſh his religion by miracles, he chuſes to carry it on by means.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], →OCLC, page 13:

     "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse," said Mr. Bennet; […]

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chuse

1. Alternative form of chesen