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▪ I. choosing, vbl. n.|ˈtʃuːzɪŋ|
For forms see verb.
[f. choose v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. choose in various senses; selection, adoption, picking out, electing, etc.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Noht after chesunge ac after strene. a1300Cursor M. 8566 (Cott.) Wisli þou has in chesing [Fairf. chosing] don. 1340Ayenb. 42 Dingnetes þet me makeþ be chyezinge. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. iv, Man in hys fyrste fourmynge..had free chesyng. 1458MS. Christ's Hosp. Abingdon in Dom. Archit. III. 42 They cockid for cartes, and cast for her chisyng. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (1852) 17 A stryffe in the yelde halle for chesynge of the mayer. 1563Hom. ii. Repentance i. (1859) 530 A superstitious abstinency, and chosyng of meates. 1597Bacon Coulers Good & Evill (Arb.) 150 Women that marrie husbandes of their owne choosing. 1651Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (1886) 266 A rule that there should bee noe picking and chuseing of partes of directions. 1711Addison Spect. No. 112. ⁋2 Several Texts of his own choosing. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. I. 308 After long chusing selected a subject.
▪ II. choosing, ppl. a.|ˈtʃuːzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chooses. Hence ˈchoosingly adv., by choice, in preference.
1651Jer. Taylor Holy Living iv. §7 If our spirits can serve God chusingly and greedily. 1862Ruskin Unto this Last 78 The love which seeks diligently, that is to say, choosingly and by preference to all things else. |