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Definition of 'chuse'

English

Verb

(chus)
  • * {{quote-book
  • | year = 1557 | author = | title = Tottel's Miscellany | section = Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred | page = 298 | pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=KdE2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA298 | passage = Rather therfore to chu?e me thinketh wi?dome.
    By lo??e of life libertye, then life by pri?on }}
  • * 1739 , 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 , :
  • "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse ," said Mr. Bennet
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