"chuse" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chuses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chusing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chuseing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chused",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chose",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chused",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chosen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "past2": "chose",
        "past_ptc2": "chosen",
        "pres_ptc2": "chuseing"
      },
      "expansion": "chuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing or chuseing, simple past chused or chose, past participle chused or chosen)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "choose"
        }
      ],
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "chuser"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome.\nBy loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249:",
          "text": "Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 299:",
          "text": "But if the Almighty choſe to eſtabliſh his religion by miracles, he chuſes to carry it on by means.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "\"Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse,\" said Mr. Bennet; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:",
          "text": "Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 45:",
          "text": "\"I wonder how you can bear that odious woman's manners,\" returned her mother; \"I expect that you will all grow like her in time. But it is of no use my saying anything; you will go if you chuse.\" / \"Oh, thank you, mamma,\" cried Georgiana, not chusing to hear any more, and down stairs she ran to communicate the permission.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of choose."
      ],
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        [
          "choose",
          "choose#English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chuse"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chuser"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chuses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chusing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chuseing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chused",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chose",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chused",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chosen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "chose",
        "past_ptc2": "chosen",
        "pres_ptc2": "chuseing"
      },
      "expansion": "chuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing or chuseing, simple past chused or chose, past participle chused or chosen)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "choose"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome.\nBy loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249:",
          "text": "Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 299:",
          "text": "But if the Almighty choſe to eſtabliſh his religion by miracles, he chuſes to carry it on by means.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "\"Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse,\" said Mr. Bennet; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:",
          "text": "Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 45:",
          "text": "\"I wonder how you can bear that odious woman's manners,\" returned her mother; \"I expect that you will all grow like her in time. But it is of no use my saying anything; you will go if you chuse.\" / \"Oh, thank you, mamma,\" cried Georgiana, not chusing to hear any more, and down stairs she ran to communicate the permission.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of choose."
      ],
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        [
          "choose",
          "choose#English"
        ]
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}